BELLOC LOWNDES (Marie Adelaide, 1868-1947, Novelist)

Fine Autograph Letter Signed to ‘My darling Ava’ Lady WAVERLEY (1896-1974, wife of Sir John Anderson, Viscount Waverley) telling her that she “was ill when the glad news appeared in The Times - So missed it. I do hope you had what is so absurdly called ‘a good time’ - and that you are having a really good time now. I long to see your son! I had hoped to have come over for just a very few days but work made it impossible. I promise to come over in March...” she continues about her concerns about the Budget and “the general state of things. All that is very very bad. If I sell a title, I shall invest the money in France...”, 2 sides 4to., 9 Barton Street, Westminster, 15th December

Ava was an English political and social hostess at the centre of government during the Second World War. Winston Churchill noted "her contact with gt. affairs". It was said that she had "more indirect influence than any woman of her generation".
She was married in 1925 to the diplomat Ralph Wigram, a senior civil servant who served in the British Embassy in Paris during the 1930s and died in 1936. Their only child, Charles, was born severely disabled in 1929. Anderson began courting her in 1941 and they married in the Chapel Royal at St James’s Palace.

Item Date:  1929

Stock No:  43026      £125

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