Distracted wartime letter, some 400 words, to his elder brother, Osbert, 1942

Sir Sacheverell SITWELL Bt

Beschreibung

Autograph letter signed to "My darling Osbert" from "your loving brother Sach": 2pp. 8vo, Weston, 10 March 1942. Mildly creased, slightly torn at fold, and slightly nicked at one edge. The family news is bad enough - Reresby, Sacheverell's 14-year-old son, has scarlet fever and is in the Fever Isolation Hospital at Slough ("He has not been an entire half, yet, at Eton"); and Sacheverell's wife Georgia's mother has announced she must stop paying her an allowance "as formerly". ("But then the poor thing's letter goes into complete gibberish . . .") "Rebecca West's book [Black Lamb and Grey Falcon?] is irritating, and has a character in it called 'the Sitwell' '(with the cold, rejecting, crystal-clear gaze of a Sitwell,' etc:) . . ." But, "Oh! darling, the news altogether!!" The Home Guard already requires him to do three evenings a week. "If invasion rehearsals come, and there is universal clamour for them - I honestly think that one's patriotic duty lies in the direction of trying to make the muddle worse, because it is only muddle that will ever get the better of the Germans." "Oh! dear. To think one was ever alive.". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 8XM100008a

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