HYDE (Harford Montgomery, 1907-1989, Lawyer and M.P., Biographer and Writer on 'causes célèbres')

Typed Letter Signed 'Montgomery' to Donald McCormick, (1911-1998, Historian of the Secret Services as 'Richard Deacon'), thanking him "for your interesting letter ... The State Department individual with whom Denis Paine got into trouble was not Sumner Welles but his deputy Adolph Berle ... Whatever he did I think was done on his own initiative and not on Bill Stephenson's. He certainly had to get out of the country very quickly", 1 side 4to., Westwell House, Tenterden, 24th January

Hyde was a vivid writer of biographies, especially of advocates and politicians, an expert on Oscar Wilde, a Lieutenant Colonel in Intelligence during the war, and Professor of History at Lahore.

Item Date:  1983

Stock No:  50463      £75

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