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Category Archives: Letters
Roundup: Two Letters and a Vase
—The Spectator has an article by Dot Wordsworth that features a misattribution to Evelyn Waugh. Here’s the opening: ‘Evelyn Waugh,’ said my husband when I asked who came up with the analogy of carrying a Ming vase. He was, in … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Letters, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Oxford, World War II
Tagged New York Times, Sotheby's, The Guardian, The Spectator
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Roundup: Shopping Lists, Inheritance and a Lecture
–The auction house Bonham’s has on offer an unusual example of Wavian memorabilia. Here’s their description: Collection of 24 autograph postcards (from Piers Court), and 3 letters signed by Waugh (22 “E.W.”, 2 “Evelyn Waugh”, 3 unsigned) to Mrs. [Sylvia] … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Items for Sale, Lancing, Lectures, Letters
Tagged Bonhams, Castle Howard, The Times
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Two Interesting Offers: A Manuscript and a Letter
A Waugh manuscript is on offer on the ABE bookseller website. This is the three-page handwritten manuscript of the article entitled “Awake My Soul! It Is a Lord” that appeared in The Spectator on 8 July 1955. Here’s the description: … Continue reading
Auction Sale of Two Waugh Letters
An online auction is offering for sale a 1945 letter from Evelyn Waugh to a Conservative MP. This relates to the policies of the British Government in Yugoslavia during and after WWII. Here is the seller’s listing info as posted … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Auctions, Internet, Items for Sale, Letters, Ronald Knox, World War II
Tagged Liveauctioneers.com, Members of Parliament, University of Leicester
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Roundup: Letter, Exhibit and Two Recommendations
–A letter from Evelyn Waugh is on offer on the internet. The description and text appear in this posting by the seller Rooke Books: An autographed signed letter from Evelyn Waugh to Eileen Mayo, in the original envelope. Envelope is … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Helena, Items for Sale, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Bodleian Library, Letter, Rooke Books, The Catholic Times, The Spectator, The Times
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MLK Weekend Roundup
–The independent book publisher Sutherland House has posted a brief article entitled “Why Waugh Drank”. This is by Kenneth Whyte and begins with a quote from Waugh’s diary (8 Dec 1924, pp. 189-90) about a drink-fueled Oxford day spent in … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Edmund Campion, Letters
Tagged Letters Live, Spectator, Sutherland House, YouTube
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Christmas 2023 Roundup
–An article posted by the Duke University Center for the Study of the Public Domain has announced that beginning in January 2024, some books written by Evelyn Waugh will be out of copyright protection in the United States. Here’s an … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Letters, Newspapers, Rossetti: His Life and Works
Tagged Duke University, Letters of Note, Literary Review
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Advent Roundup
–The religious website Thinking Faith has posted an essay by Gerard Kilroy, who is, inter alia, co-editor of the recently published volume of Edmund Campion in the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. In this essay, Kilroy explains in some detail the … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Edmund Campion, Letters, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Vile Bodies, World War II
Tagged Catholic Insight, Financial Review (Australia), New York Review of Books, The Times, Thinking Faith
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Thanksgiving Roundup
–James Marriott writing in The Times offers some thoughts on the new film Saltburn (mentioned in several previous posts). Here’s an excerpt: …With the complacency characteristic of her class, Fennell [writer/director of film] never pauses to reflect that a person … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Christie's, The Herald (Scotland), The Nation, The Oldie, The Times
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