BUCHAN (John, Lord Tweedsmuir, 1875-1940, Novelist, Governor General of Canada)

Autograph Letter Signed to Adrian BRUNEL, (1892-1958, Film Director & Screenwriter), saying "Alas! I am not in London, while Parliament is up, and Monday the 2nd is for other reasons impossible ... I am so very sorry to fail you", 2 sides 8vo., Elsfield Manor, Oxford, 30th December

Adrian Brunel was highly regarded, especially in the Silent Era, for his innovation and wit (often revealed in the 'intertitles'). Two of his 'lost' films are on the British Film Institute's 'most wanted' list. In the early thirties, owing to a dispute with Gainsborough, he had become virtually unemployable, but wrote a valuable book on film making. Now he was beginning to break back into 'talkies'. Buchan had been active in the foundation of the British Film Institute. The first of his novels to be filmed was Huntingtower, in 1925. The present letter suggests Brunel had such a project in mind.

Item Date:  1932

Stock No:  56102      £145

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