Gallico (Paul)

An archive of correspondence with notable figures, ephemera and newspaper clippings, compiled by the author, consisting of 36 folio albums, each focusing on a particular publication or subject, both autograph and typed letters, the majority pasted in, including:

• Laura Knight: four letters, three of which with autograph drawings: ‘As for Jennie, she also lives. What a superb imagination you have. It springs into reality in every book.’
• David Niven: two letters: ‘Dear Mr Gallico, Yours of 17 Feb received, read and deeply resented. [...] you, unless my memory fails me, once tried to take the bread out of poor ailing Jack Dempsey’s basket. Also Lennie Lyons is a c*nt… though you don’t have to quote me’; ‘[...] the other in Paris with that ugly old Italian broad - Sophia Loren!’
• Noel Coward: letter: ‘I was riveted by ‘Poseidon’ from beginning to end [...] I didn’t actually read it hanging upside down from a glass chandelier but I was certainly hanging from the chandelier for several days after [...]’
• Joan Crawford: two Christmas letters with decorative headers
• Marlene Dietrich: Two letters and a telegram: ‘Thinking of you. Lonesome down under, Marlene’
• Clementine Spencer-Churchill: letter
• Gene Tunney: letter
• Richard Harris: photo, inscribed: ‘I must be the most expensive present Princess Grace ever gave you!’
• Marina Duchess of Kent: signed photo
• Carlos Reymond: letter
• Bernard Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk: six letters
• Valentina Chagall: signed letter
• Fran and Ray Stark: three invitations, including to ‘Funny Girl’
• Clare Booth Luce: postcard
• Bernhard, The Prince of the Netherlands: letter: ‘As to your being in a state of mental paralysis, I must remark that you can hide this extremely well’
• Walt Disney: sympathy thank you note from the family on his death
• of Walt Disney
• Aga Khan IV: invitation
• Boxing kangaroo photographs relating to ‘Matilda’ (1978)
• Mary Wilson: letter
• National Academy of Television certificate for the ‘Snow Goose’ adaptation, with telegrams about Emmy nominations and related photographs
• The Poseidon Adventure: photographs and production
• Jack Dempsey: Season’s Greetings card
• Charles H. Percy: letter
• Buckingham Palace: invitation
• Photos from 75th birthday at Foyle’s, including John Profumo
• Three scrap albums of Sports journalism, including photos of him with Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney, dated 1928-29
• ‘Sunday Sermonologues’, an album of Gallico’s articles illustrated by Sam Berman, compiled and inscribed to Gallico by his father, gilt-lettered morocco, 1948
• Paul Gallico’s pistol licence
• Dust jackets

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