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WAUGH (Evelyn). QUEEN ELIZABETH (Consort of King George VI).

[Autograph Letter signed to Evelyn Waugh].

Stock Code
106031
London, 1948
£2,250

Elizabeth (Queen of Great Britain, Ireland, consort of George VI, later styled Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, 1900-2002). An utterly charming nugget of the more personal life of the Queen Mother and it puts paid to the myth that she only read P.G. Wodehouse!

The Loved One, a satire on American attitudes to death, first published as a single issue of Horizon.

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Autograph letter, signed to Evelyn Waugh; 8vo; Buckingham Palace, 27th October 1948, thanking him for his gift of his novel, The Loved One, 'having read it with enormous pleasure in Horizon, I am enchanted to have the book in such lovely guise, the thick smooth paper & beautiful print and the perfect illustrations are a joy. It is many years since I have enjoyed & admired a book as much as The Loved One, it is so brilliant, so funny & so horrifying, just what one needs in this rather grey self conscious world of today'; 3 pp. folds, envelope.

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