COOPER (Lady Diana, née Lady Diana Olivia Winifred Maud Manners, Viscountess Norwich, 1892-1986, Actress & Author)

Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Wheatley (wife of Dennis WHEATLEY, 1897-1977, Novelist) asking her to “consider giving a little support to the ‘Christmas Tree’ Ball, of which I am Chairman, and which takes place at the Dorchester Hotel... in aid of St. Peter’s Hospital... I know how often you must be asked to help with these charity efforts, but if you can bring a little party, or just take even two tickets, I should be more than grateful. St. Peter’s Hospital is a hospital for men suffering from stone and other kidney diseases. The surgery and treatment are all splendid, but the Hospital is crippled for want of funds, which are most urgently needed for its enlargement and, of course, for the maintenance of the up-to-date operating theatre and X-ray department. There are not nearly enough beds for the demand...”, 1 side A4, Admiralty House headed paper, 10th December no year

Born Lady Diana Manners, she was an English aristocrat who was a well-known social figure in London and Paris. As a young woman, she moved in a celebrated group of intellectuals known as the Coterie, most of whom were killed in the First World War. She married one of the few survivors, Duff Cooper, later British ambassador to France. After his death, she wrote three volumes of memoirs which reveal much about early 20th-century upper-class life.

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