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chess composer Miroslav Havel: signed letter 1958 
enclosed: signed letter by Nadezda Kostalova (Miroslav Havel’s wife)
Miroslav Havel (1881-1958)
and Nadezda Kostalova (Miroslav Havel’s wife)
two handwritten signed letters from 1958
to Slovak composer Bedrich Formanek
Size cca 20 x 17.
Good to very good: light signs of use, light traces after horizontal center fold.
The first letter (1 sheet 20x17 cm), written by Miroslav Havel, is dated 26 January 1958. It begins with Dear Mr. engineer and is addressed to Bedrich Formanek (although Formanek's name is not directly mentioned in the letter, it is obvious from the content). Havel sends one corrected problem for the chess column in paper Praca.
The second letter (1 double-sheet 20x17 cm), written by Nadezda Kostalova (=Havel’s wife, resp. widow), is dated 8 July 1958. It begins with Dear Mr. engineer and is also addressed to Bedrich Formanek (although Formanek's name is not directly mentioned in the letter, it is clear from the content). Mrs. Kostalova informs the addressee that her husband has died and asks him to pay the prize from the last problem tournament.
Biographical data:
Miroslav Havel (1881-1958, own name Miroslav Kostal), author of some 1,900 problems. The most significant representative of the Bohemian Chess Problem School. His problems can be found in the books Bohemian Garnets (1923), Ceske granaty v miniature (1935), Ceske granaty II (1943) and Ceske granaty 1898–1958 (1975)
Nadezda Kostalova (?-?), wife of Miroslav Havel
Bedrich Formanek (1933-2023), noted Slovak chess problem composer, author of many hundreds of problems. He wrote more than 10 books and edited more than 7,000 chess columns in various newspapers. President of the Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess Compositions (PCCC) in 1994-2002.
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