LEHMANN Rosamond - ALS 1928 about Dusty Answer Category_Politics

LEHMANN Rosamond - ALS 1928 about Dusty Answer Category_PoliticsRosamond LEHMANN (1901 1990) Autograph Letter Signed (Rosamond Lehmann) to Dear Mr. Hutchinson, thanking him for writing an admiring letter about her book. 3 pages 8vo, Mill House, Pangbourne, 7 August 1928. The book in question can only be Lehmanns first novel, Dusty Answer, published the previous year. The novel proved both popular and scandalous, with its then shocking depiction of a lesbian romantic attachment. It was very nice of you to take the

I am quite unconscious that I owed you forty-five pounds

Seamore Place

The letter has been torn in two places when it was unsealed

so the outlook is not too good

with 161 members voting for the death penalty

“What would poor Calder give to be with us now

On the verso is a note in another hand "Per l'autentica dalle firma

3 May 1986

Eugène-Francois VIDOCQ (1775-1857)

14 June 1972

The corporals are the weak spots

Liszt the more exciting and progressive