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[ Marghanita Laski ] Typed Note Signed Marghanita Laski to a Mr. Ager, declining an invitation to speak to a Society.

Author: 
Marghanita Laski [ (1915–1988), journalist, radio panellist and novelist. ]
Publication details: 
[Headed] Capo di Monte, Windmill Hill, London, N.W.3, 12 Feb. 1954.
£28.00

One page, 12mo, good condition. It is more than good of you to invite me again to speak to your Society, and it makes me feel very sorry and ashamed that again I must say no. But I have had to give up all lecturing except where there is an inescapable personal obligation to do so because it simply cannot be fitted in to the other demands of my domestic and working life. So very regretfully [...] A small newspaper clipping is laid down in the corner with photo of Laski looking about 30, and brief biographical detail.

[ Plantagenet Somerset Fry; historian ] Typed Letter Signed Plantagenet Somerset Fry to Lord Elibank (James Alastair Frederick Campbell Erskine-Murray, 13th Lord Elibank) who has written his reply in the margins and spaces.

Author: 
Plantagenet Somerset Fry [ born Peter George Robin Fry (1931–1996), historian ]
Publication details: 
St. Catherine's Society, Oxford, 9 Dec. 1955.
£56.00

Two pages, 8vo, very good condition, with a few holograph corrections. He thanks Lord Elibank for the loan of pamphlets, naming the one on Bismarck that he is returning. He agrees with most of what Elibank says about the Armada, finding the key question whether there was 'a strike of not'. He continues, With regard to Lucy Walter. I have indeed read the late Lord George Scott's book and discovered the facts to which you refer. It seemed to me a delicate subject on which to write and this is the reason why I answered the question in such a general manner.

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