AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND MANUSCRIPTS
SITWELL (EDITH)
Collection of approximately 50 letters to George Raper and his wife, of the Daimler car hire firm, Rapers Bros of Chelsea, regarding the services of his company and the many personal errands run by him for her, giving an intimate and sometimes startling insight into the Sitwellian lifestyle (ordering, inter alia, books, Basildon writing paper, peroxide, a violet cardigan of the largest size, tooth brushes, her jewellery stored at Coutts, a hat-box full of MSS to be delivered to Messrs Bumpus, belladonna plasters, nail scissors, a dozen fairly large but not too large manuscript envelopes, also two sheets of blotting paper, -- and finally, a pocket comb and a bottle of Listerine, mansize boxes of Kleenex, liver sausage, Chanel No 5 from Selfridgess, bone knitting needles, Elizabeth Ardens Muscle Oil, and much else); together with inscribed copies of Fanfare for Elizabeth, The Canticle of the Rose and Victoria Glendinnings biography; plus printed ephemera, including RFH reading programmes, some soiling, in a folder and loose, 1955-62 where dated
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