POWELL (Dilys, 1901-1995, Writer and Film Critic)

Autograph Postcard Signed to George M. Richards of Poole, Dorset, exhorting him to "Cheer up - where is the Prodigious Puncher of Poole? ... Perhaps like the character in 'The Way of All Flesh', you need a course of the larger mammals", on the recto is a striking close-up photograph by Helmut Gernsheim of the head and shoulders of Nelson's monument in St Paul's, 4¼" x 6", postmarked Paddington, 8th May

Dilys Powell's first husband, H.G.G. Payne, 1902-1936, was Director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens, and she had a life-long love of Greece. She was film critic for the Sunday Times, 1939-1976, and president of the Classical Association, 1966-1967.

Item Date:  1967

Stock No:  54595      £45

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