Elizabeth Bol-Smit (1904-1987). "Geen geloof, maar weten"

"Als basis voor een nieuwe Westerse religie en ter veredeling van de menselijke samenleving". Original typoscript, dated Dordrecht, October 1964, 16 one-sided typed A4 leaves, with an original pen drawing between pages 10 and 11, stapled.

On the versatile artist Elizabeth Bol-Smit, see: http://encyclopedievanzeeland.nl/Elizabeth_Bol-Smit. In 1966 she published "Helder verlicht: gedichten" and in 1984 the biography "In vogelvlucht: schilderijen, tekeningen gedichten." Original work in Boymans van Beuningen, Teylers Museum, Singer and the Rijksmuseum. With added a typed letter signed in pen, to the editors of Ratio monthly, dated 30 October 1964, in which she offers the typoscript for publication, and also a picture postcard send afterwards to the editors (31 October) with several corrections to the typoscript. We do not know if the article was eventually published. The typoscript comes from the archive of Henk Meier, editor-in-chief at Ratio, a magazine which was only published for several years. Finally with added letter from the editors of the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant to the artist, with a rejection for publication because of the article's length.