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BOOKS AND LETTERS FROM THE LIBRARY OF ANTHONY POWELL
Lot 339

WAUGH (EVELYN)
The Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox, Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford and Pronotary Apostolic to His Holiness Pope Pius XII, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "For Tony with warm regards from Evelyn, October 8th 1959" on front free endpaper, Chapman & Hall, 1959

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WAUGH (EVELYN)

The Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox, Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford and Pronotary Apostolic to His Holiness Pope Pius XII, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "For Tony with warm regards from Evelyn, October 8th 1959" on front free endpaper, publisher's cloth, 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1959

Footnotes

Evelyn Waugh notes that in later life Knox "made few new friends" but Powell (and Siegfried Sassoon) were exceptions. "The novelist, Anthony Powell, whose books, Ronald used to complain, were 'too difficult' for him, came to live in the neighbourhood, and Ronald spent some happy hours bottling wine with him" (Waugh, The Life... of Ronald Knox, 1959, p.318). Powell was close enough to Knox to call him "Ronnie", and remembered him as "a man of delightful humour... Waugh had written that he could be chilly if surroundings were in the least unsympathetic. I said I never noticed that. 'You were at Eton and Balliol' [as was Knox] Waugh replied" (Anthony Powell, The Memoirs, 1982, p.40).

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