Autograph Collection.- Authors

Autograph Collection.- Authors

A collection of cards and letters, mostly to June Wyndham-Davies, from various authors, including: Peter Lovesey (two signed Christmas card and typed letter, "I hope this won't alarm you, but rather than make fairly extensive changes on 'Murder Old Boy', Jackie and I decided to wipe the slate clean (to use an apt expression) and write a new play with a different plot and characters [...] I think it will have more period flavour and more tension, with some good surprises [...] We promise you will need little more than a school-house and some nice grounds with a croquet-lawn. No elephants, house-boats or burning music-halls", one page, 22 July 1980); Eleanor Farjeon (two signed Christmas cards); Nina Bawden (signed note); Iris Murdoch (one letter to Norma West, thanking her "for your splendid Priscilla, very moving, very funny, a very memorable person. I am immensely grateful to you, and to all of you, for this experience, seeing my play so beautifully acted"; and another letter to Mary Morris saying "how immensely I've been enjoying your performance as Emma Sands. I think it's very moving and absolutely right"); Myles Rudge (autograph note apologising for the delay in sending a cheque); Alan Plater (thank you note "for coming to our aid in Dublin in the matter of 'The Man with The Twisted H.P. You are a very special human being); Susan Howatch (thank-you card); Mirabel Osler (thank-you note "What a lovely dinner party! Such good company, such delicious food and drink and the great delight in being in your pretty home); Jeremy Pall (autograph note); Ian Kennedy Martin (thank-you note "for the great generosity shown to Daniel at the audition"); Edna O'Brien (autograph letter saying in part "Thank you for all your kindness to me. I hope that the results will not be a disappointment, It was really lovely to see you and to see you looking so well"); Anne Perry (two Christmas cards and two thank-you notes); Charles Wood (three handwritten notes); Fay Weldon (note saying "Saw 'A Sort of Beauty/Change' and the 'Great Rebellion'...Thank you very much! I Laughed at my own jokes and admired my own characters- one more can one say?"); and Margaret Yorke (two letters to Norma West, one thanking her for a lunch at her house and the other saying "I do mean to have a Sunday lunch party, inviting Phyllis and sister and you - will really try to get myself organised now half term"); v.s. (qty)

PROVENANCE: From the collection of June Wyndham Davies and Norma West