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(Dame Rebecca, 1892-1983, Novelist, Journalist, Biographer and Critic)
Fine Typed Letter Signed ‘Rebecca W.’ to Diana MARR-JOHNSON
(1908-2007, Social Advocate, Novelist and Playwright, niece of Somerset Maugham), apologising for not having written earlier “to thank you for that most consoling lunch. But I had another memorial service, and then Henry got gout, and I was given a new drug for a minor ailment which produce a major one, as I was allergic to it. But I have felt so grateful to you. Not only was I deeply fond of Pamela, but the thought of how much happier she might have been if things had gone differently, and how little I had seen of her lately, for stupid reasons (my being in American when she was here, and t’other way round) - all this depresses me, and you lifted the weight. It occurs to me that I may have sounded rather vague about the trustee business, and that it may interest you. The trustee business, I mean, that had made me see that Liza couldn’t do anything but what she did. About fifteen years or so or more I was named as trustee of a trust fund by a woman who died leaving an adopted child, whom she had named as beneficiary of the trust fund... My co-trustee was an inoffensive solicitor of good repute. My solicitor discovered that the dead woman had induced this solicitor of hers to advance her money out of the trust fund which she had no right to have. My solicitor then explained to me that I must sue this solicitor, unless he replaced the money, because if I left matters as they were the adopted child would have the right to sue me for negligence, and so would her heirs! - and in time the sum claimed might be quite large, with interest added to it...”, 2 sides 8vo., Ibstone House, Ibstone headed paper, 27th June
Item Date:
1967
Stock No:
42637
£225
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(Dame Rebecca, 1892-1983, Novelist, Journalist, Biographer and Critic)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed ‘Rebecca W.’ to Diana MARR-JOHNSON
(1908-2007, Social Advocate, Novelist and Playwright, niece of Somerset Maugham), saying she has “often wanted to get in touch with you. But I have wasted the last few years in winding up my husband’s estate, which has nearly driven me mad, and all my married life our affairs have been handed over punctiliously to a firm of accountants, who have now handed it back to me in the state of a piece of knitting played with by a litter of kittens. As I picked up the stitches I have had more and. more trouble with. my eyes and so. life has been a shambles. I’ve got my eyes as right as I can and tried to get the knitting on the needles again, and I would like to see you!... Thank you for your book and your kind lunch. (That was a lovely party Sarah and Marjorie gave for me! And I saw so many people lie you that I had been barred off from for so long). I will read your book with pleasure... About Barbara - she is very glad of company if one can sacrifice oneself for an hour or two. She is very old now, and very stiff... and very distraught. But she is sweet and affectionate with her bitchiness and it is all very sad...”, 2 sides 8vo., with original autograph envelope, 48 Kingston House North, Prince’s Gate, S.W.7., 9th February
Item Date:
1973
Stock No:
41929
£275
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(Dame Rebecca, 1892-1983, Novelist, Journalist, Biographer and Critic)
Fine Typed Letter Signed ‘Rebecca West’ to Mr Russell
saying that “on returning here after a holiday in France I have found a letter from you concerning a volume of tributes to Ruth Pitter dated 3.9.68. I have no recollection of having seen it before, and I do not think you can have received an answer. I would just like to explain to you that just about that time my husband was taken gravely ill, and had to go into hospital, where he died in November. I would not wish you to think that my failure to answer you was due to any discourtesy or any failure to recognise the genius of Ruth Pitter. Since then I have moved from my country house, and my papers and correspondence have been swept into hopeless disorder, and I really was powerless to prevent it. I have not seen the volume and will look forward to reading it...”, 1 side 4to., 48 Kingston House North, Prince’s Gate, 5th August
Item Date:
1969
Stock No:
41938
£275
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(Dame Rebecca, 1892-1983, Novelist, Journalist, Biographer and Critic)
Fine signature and date
on a card, 3½” x 2¼”, no place,
Item Date:
1928
Stock No:
42183
£35
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(Dame Rebecca, 1892-1983, Novelist, Journalist, Biographer and Critic)
"The Birds Fall Down", signed, inscribed
"My gratitude to Elizabeth Barber - and many hopes that she will have a riotous retirement", on the front end-paper, and dated, 30th March 1971, 8vo., Macmillan, Melbourne - Toronto,
Item Date:
1966
Stock No:
3712
£75
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