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

Autograph Postcard Signed to George M. Richards of Poole, Dorset, sending "Best wishes, Christmas, New Year, or any other time", adding "(Electricity cut so writing by candlelight, more illegibly than ever)", on the recto is a colour reproduction of George Scharf's "Staircase of the Old British Museum" including the giraffes, 4¼" x 6", no place, no date, circa

Dilys Powell was film critic for the Sunday Times, 1939-1976, where her second husband, Leonard Russell, 1906-1974, was chief literary editor. Her 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.

Item Date:  1970

Stock No:  54602      £45

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