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Category Archives: Letters
Clive James (1939-2019) R. I. P.
The critic and poet Clive James has died at the age of 80, after a long fight with cancer. He was born in Australia and moved to England in the early 1960s where he finished his education at Cambridge University. … Continue reading
Waugh Letters to Richard Plunket Greene on Offer
Southeby’s has announced the auction of 10 letters from Evelyn Waugh, written while he was teaching at Arnold House School in North Wales. Here’s the description: 10 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED, EIGHT TO RICHARD PLUNKET GREENE, ONE TO HIS MOTHER GWEN … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Auctions, Decline and Fall, Items for Sale, Letters
Tagged Richard Plunket Greene, Southeby's
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John Heygate Archives on Offer
The auction house Bonhams, in Knightsbridge, London, will hold an auction on 4 December that will include archived letters to John Heygate. Several of these contain information that relates to Evelyn Waugh. Heygate was a friend of Waugh and his … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, London
Tagged Anthony Powell, Bonhams, John Heygate
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Waugh, Nabokov and a Booker Nominee
In today’s Times newspaper, critic and novelist D J Taylor reviews a long-shot Booker prize nominee entitled Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann. This is a 1000 page novel written in the form of a single sentence. The review opens with … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Events, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Booker Prize, D.J.Taylor, Lucy Ellmann, The Times
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Waugh Letter for Sale
A 4 December 1959 letter from Evelyn Waugh to a reader in Columbus, Ohio is for sale. The letter is offered on the internet by Charles Agvent Rare Books and Autographs of Fleetwood, Pennsylvania. The letter is addressed to Jane … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Brideshead Revisited, Items for Sale, Letters
Tagged Charles Agvent Rare Books, Jane Callaway
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Basil Seal Rides Yet Again
The Daily Telegraph has a review of a book entitled Master of Deception: The Wartime Adventures of Peter Fleming by Alan Ogden. This is about something called D Division (or “deception organization”) in the Inter-Services Liaison Department. Peter Fleming, Ian’s older … Continue reading
Posted in Basil Seal Rides Again, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Peter Fleming
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Late July Roundup
–The latest issue of The Oldie has an article by David Horspool comparing the WWII novels of Lev Grossman (Stalingrad), recently published for the first time in a complete English translation, and Joseph Heller (Catch 22), recently adapted into a … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Film, Letters, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged American Psycho, Craig Brown, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, David Horspool, Filmmaker Magazine, Princess Margaret, Spectator, The Oldie
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Biography of Orwell’s 1984
Today’s New York Times reviews what it describes as a biography of George Orwell’s novel 1984. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the novel’s publication on 8 June 1949 in London and a week later in New York. The book’s … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Scott-King's Modern Europe
Tagged 1984, George Orwell, New York Times
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4th of July Weekend Roundup
–America: The Jesuit Review has reposted on its website a 2013 essay about Waugh written by Jon M Sweeney. The essay was a response to the re-issuance of all of his fiction in the USA by Little, Brown and all … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Letters, Newspapers, Scott-King's Modern Europe, Television
Tagged America: The Jesuit Review, Catch-22, Evening Standard, Los Angeles Times, The Oldie, University of Birmingham, Vita and Virginia
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Letters to Maro
An auction house has on offer 5 letters and a post card from Evelyn Waugh to Maro Stathatos (nee Vatimbella, 1919-1989) and her son John. These were written in the period February 1962-October 1963 and are in the nature of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Auctions, Items for Sale, Letters
Tagged Maro Stathatos
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