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Lot 312
DU MAURIER DAPHNE: (1907-1989) British Author. T.L.S., Daphne, four pages, 8vo, Menabilly, Par, Cornwall, 13th August 1958, to 'My dear' (Foy Quiller-Couch). Du Maurier writes a social letter to her friend, commenting on the death of a mutual acquaintance, as well as the health of her husband, Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning, 'The Guradsman, as no doubt you will have heard, had three weeks in hospital soon after we last saw you. Whether it was just boiling up and the dry rot in Yggy touched off the steam, I don't know, but he felt so ill when he got up to London that he went at once to see Lord Evans, the Queen's doctor. The result was hospital for three weeks with what they called “nervous exhaustion” and every test was made. The sum total is that his blood was tending to clot, and so, I surmise, pass too slowly through his system including his brain, hence the general fatigue and depression. He has been given pills to thin the blood, and seems better and less depressed, but is still very thin and not the Guardsman of old, and I am afraid that it will all take time. Lord E said privately to me that he did not think he should continue his job - he has two months clear here anyway with the royals in Scotland - but it leaves rather a vacuom (sic) and I feel the subject is better left for the time being.' Du Maurier also refers to her son ('Kits has a sports car, and dashed around in it all day and is quite happy') and her own work ('I am writing short stories, and sneak out to the hut feeling rather guilty as though going to some assignation') and concludes by commenting on the weather, 'Tod keeps talking of the weather as if it had been sent by the Almighty in deliberate spite upon Cornwall and nowhere else. I believe it to be Europe-wide'. VG Foy Quiller-Couch - daughter of British writer Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), and a life-long friend of Du Maurier. Indeed, Du Maurier was accompanied by Foy Quiller-Couch when she became inspired with the storyline for her novel Jamaica Inn. Some years previously the two ladies were staying at Jamaica Inn and went riding on Bodmin Moor. They became lost in bad weather conditions and apparently sheltered for some time in a derelict cottage on the moor but were eventually led back to Jamaica Inn by their horses. Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Browning (1896-1965) British Army officer of World War II who later served, in 1948, as Comptroller and Treasurer to Princess Elizabeth and, following her ascension to the throne in 1952, became Treasurer in the office of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Browning had suffered a nervous breakdown, as a result of heavy drinking, in July 1957, and resigned from his position at Buckingham Palace in 1959.
Lot 509
MACROBERTSON AIR RACE: Individual clipped signed pieces by Tom Campbell Black (1899-1936) English Pioneer Aviator and Charles W. A. Scott (1903-1946) English Pioneer Aviator who, together, won the London to Melbourne Centenary Air Race in 1934. Both signatures are in bold, dark fountain pen ink. Autographs of Campbell Black are rare following his tragically early death in an aviation accident. Scott's piece is slightly irregularly clipped, very close to the signature. Neatly laid down alongside each other to a 4to sheet bearing a printed biography of Campbell Black. Together with an A.L.S., Charles W. A. Scott, one page, oblong 8vo, n.p., March 1937, to Marjorie Scott. The aviator writes, in full, 'We used to think of yours as being the weaker sex Marjorie. But now with Amelia Earhart, & Jean Batten & Amy (Johnson) this seems hardly to be the case'. An interesting statement for its references to various aviatrix. Also including book signed, a hardback edition of Scott's Book - The Life and Mildenhall-Melbourne Flight of C.W.A. Scott, published by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., London, December 1934 (reprinted). Signed by Scott with his name alone in bold fountain pen ink to the front free endpaper. Cloth boards and no dust jacket. Frontispiece illustration detached. Some light age wear and minor staining and discoloration to cloth. Further including a bold, dark fountain pen ink signature ('Charles W. A. Scott') on a piece. The lot also features [Bert Hinkler] (1892-1933) Australian Pioneer Aviator, the first pilot to fly solo from England to Australia (1928) and the first to fly solo across the Southern Atlantic Ocean (1931). An original small 4to printed menu for a dinner in honour of Hinkler, given by Sir Charles Wakefield at the Savoy Hotel, 28th November 1928. The attractive printed menu features an illustration of Hinkler by artist Fred Roe to the cover, a printed narrative of Hinkler's record flight from London to Australia and three photographs, as well as map of the route, to the inside. Cover detached, although with the scarlet ribbon still present that originally tied it to the contents. Generally G to VG, 5
Lot 303
G. LEO JEWELL (Twentieth century) OIL PAINTING ON CANVAS Landscape scene Signed 16" x 24" (40.6cm x 60.9cm) AND P. A. STAKEY OIL PAINTING ON CANVAS Still life of a Vase of Flowers Signed 18 ½" x 15" (46.9cm x 38.1cm) RONNIE LESTER (1978) PASTEL DRAWING Portrait of a School Boy Signed and dated 18" x 13 ½" (45.7cm x 34.2cm) AFTER JOHN WESTERN limited edition print from a pencil drawing `Fettes College` (359/850) 12 1/2" x 21" (31.8cm x 53.3cm) (4) (3)
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