DE LA MARE (Walter John, 1873-1956, Poet and Novelist)

Fine Typed Letter with autograph amendments Signed to “Dear Rosemary” SISSON (1923-2017, Dramatist and Novelist) when she was a young girl, thanking her for her letter and saying he had “no notion that you could possibly have said Goodbye to Cheltenham. I wish indeed I could have seen you there, but for some other reason than a lecture. The fact that there were all those silent faces when I came can only have been Obedience to Orders. I remember mounting only the first step of the intimidating eagle reading desk and then discovering that I could scarcely see over its beak. Do send me the translation some day. Cuckoos; I forget names with the greatest of ease, but not cuckoos. I can remember seeing four in one leafy tree near Salisbury, one flying over the Thames at Oxford and one when I was sat in the garden here actually alighted on the top of a pole a few years away - no doubt to be admired, or did she think my hat was a Meadow Pip’s nest? This year I saw our swallows the day before I heard the first cuckooing - April 20th. I am sad about Wordsworth., but believe he is chiefly the elderly’s poet, so I am afraid is going to be rather a long time before you forgive his Little Lucy’s!...”, 1 side 4to., Hill House, Taplow headed paper, 3rd May

Rosemary Sisson was an English television dramatist and novelist. She contributed to scripts for Upstairs Downstairs, The Duchess of Duke Street and The Six Wives of Henry VIII. Her Father, Charles Sisson (1885-1966) was a British academic and author.
She was described by playwright Simon Farquhar in 2014 as being "one of television's finest period storytellers", and in 2017 fellow dramatist Ian Curteis referred to her as "the Miss Marple of British playwriting". She also wrote several novels for adults, including The Excise Man in 1972 and The Stratford Story in 1975. She also wrote books for children, including The Adventures of Ambrose in 1951 and The Impractical Chimney Sweep in 1956.

Item Date:  1937

Stock No:  42426      £250

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