An unpublished autograph letter signed 'Evelyn Waugh', dated 25 January 1958 and addressed to Sir Ralph Furse, in relation to memoirs of the First World War

WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-1966, author and journalist)

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Small quarto (203 × 152 mm), 1 page on the letterhead of 'Combe Florey House, Combe Florey, nr Taunton' (printed in red on blue paper). One horizontal crease where folded for posting, with light handling creases and marks elsewhere; small chip and faint paperclip mark to one corner; in very good condition. The letter reads in full: '25th January 1958 | Dear Sir Ralph | Thank you awfully for lending me this. It was of the greatest interest and help. I have read a dozen or more of these memoirs lately, of men killed in the first war. There is no one I can think of in my generation who could have inspired so much affection and left so complete a loss as the men of yours. There is no doubt in my mind that the stock deteriorated and is deteriorating further. Please do not trouble to acknowledge this. Yours sincerely | Evelyn Waugh'. Sir Ralph Dolignon Furse (1887-1973) was twice mentioned in dispatches and awarded the DSO with bar during the First World War; he later had a distinguished career in the Colonial Office. The publication referred to in this letter is 'D.R. Brandt: Some of His Letters' (John Murray, 1920), for which Furse had supplied an introduction. This is part of correspondence relating to Waugh's 'The Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox' (1959), a biography of the Catholic theologian and author of detective fiction who was at Eton with Furse and later shared lodgings with him at Oxford. Furse has made several annotations to the letter in red ink. Beside Waugh's reflections on the generation of men who fought in the First World War he has written 'The Great Generation'. Elsewhere he clarifies that the letter relates to Knox (RAK) and Brandt (DRB). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 137574

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