Marc

Thank you so much Michael,

I will get the names tonight and post them tomorrow,

Marc

Chris,

All I know about the tapes is that there is 1 box of around 100 tapes and another box of around 25 tapes.

I have opened them up and looked at the names and most names are unfamiliar to me( I should probaly write them down and post here ). The smaller box indicates that this was research for Passion.

Believe it or not , I am a little afraid of listening to one in case of the tape breaking. I have decided to wait and get a professional to copy them maybe onto a cd or something for backup. I am nervous about that although I would love to hear one. My discipline is important to preserve this history !

First steps of many here,

Marc

Thank you for the welcomes !

Jeff, I have read most of your posts and thouroughly enjoy your writings. I also have wondered about your baseball career and hoping that when you make the Majors you are still planning on sharing your wisdom here ! I also wonder how many Objectivist ball players there are in the Majors ?

Chris, Thank you and I did just post on the auction thread moments ago.Please feel free to ask me anything about the items that I have.

Kat, Thank you and a belated happy birthday for you !

BTW, my son is Dylan !

Marc

Good morning friends,

I did just join this wonderful site and introduced myself on the other board yesterday as some of you are aware.

In 1998 when I found out that this auction was happenning I was ecstatic. I was overseas at the time in Asia yet I managed to be hooked into the auction on the phone and was able to bid through a Butterfield employee would who bid for me on my orders and explain what was going on in terms of bidding and her feeling about prices etc and how many bidders so I was able to make some rational decisions-although some were irrational as one can really get caught up in the frenzie when bidding and also where emotions are involved it does get quite wild.This lady by the way was terrific in her help for me of seeing the picture so to speak.

Anyway I ended out buying 5 books that were autographed by Ayn Rand to people in her inner circle. I managed to purchase the Atlas Shrugged copy signed to Barbara Branden as is mentioned in this thread. That is my favorite of the books that I bought. I also have one signed to Mr.Hessen.

I purchased as well the photograph of Rand of above Lot # 5888 which is now in a beautiful frame on the wall in my office at home where I see it daily.

The lot that I wish to write about and ask about is Lot # 5929. This was one of the last lots sold and it was bizarre because for me this was the most one of the most important lots at the auction.

Lots of the items in the 4-5 boxes were not even mentioned in the auction or the auction guide book( they could not have been because of the amount of documents and items in the boxes).

Believe it or not-due to my work for the past years I have spent much time in Asia and Europe and never really had the opportunity to go through everything and I obviously had everything in safekeeping. Recently though I have managed to start to go through these boxes.

I will write here some of the contents and answer any questions ( and ask some too ) .

Included in these boxes:

The manuscript from ''Passion'' and the tapes that have been made reference to here. There are 2 boxes of tapes and I think well over 100 or so.

Many prints from Capuletti.

So many original pictures of Rand , The Brandens, Greenspan, and others in the inner circle.

I am actually overwhelmed as to where I would start in order to document everything and all the files that were included here.

Lots of documents about the split back and forth.

So many books and pamphlets from the Objectivist lectures.

I just sit down and start looking then reading letters such as the one from Barbara Branden to Rands' sister in Russia and then the reply and also the manuscript of the actual conversation which is a little bizarre from the side of how she responded when Barbara indicated that Rand had died.

I just did want to start by mentionong this and discuss this a little . My only reason for writing this is that now I finally have a place that I can share these wonderful treasures.

I do have to start work now, so I will check in later,

Kind regards and thank you for reading,

Marc

Thank you for the warm welcome Michael and REB !

We have 3 children and my 3rd was a boy but if it was a girl I was pulling for Dagny !!

We decided to go with a ''regular'' name for him ,haha .

Marc

Hello to all,

I am Marc and live in Toronto. I wanted to quickly introduce myself as I finally joined this wonderful place after reading here for a few months . I was actually going to post on the thread about the auction in 98 (Michael Stuart Kelly) that I was reading last week but thought I should introduce myself here first.

I have loved Ayn Rands work for over 20 years now -so much that I named my first 2 daughters Kira and Dominique !

In 1998, I purchased several autographed copies of Ayn Rands books and also other items. The items that I bought have given me great pleasure and when I saw the thread about the auction I wanted to jump in and discuss points that are of interest.

I will post on the aution thread tomorrow if I cannot today.

It feels great to be here amoung friends and so many great people.When I see some of the names on this site I feel exhilirated.

Regards,

Marc