The LYTTELTON & HART-DAVIS LETTERS 1955-1962

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George Lyttelton - a former master at Eton - once complained at a dinner at which Rupert Hart-Davis - former Eton pupil, publisher & man of letters - was present, that he was bored & that no one ever wrote to him. This is a collection of the celebrated correspondence that ensued. Rupert Hart-Davis reports from the front line of the London literary battle- field, when not pursuing Wildean minutiae for his famous edition of Oscar's letters, while George fulminates from his summerhouse on "this age of jaw" & "how it darkens counsel". 358pp H/B