Two ALSs from acclaimed English novelist Evelyn Waugh to the esteemed London-based bookbinders Sangorski & Sutcliffe, both one page, penned on her personal 6 x 8 Combe Florey House letterhead. The first handwritten letter, June 26 [1947], in part: “I enclose a further manuscript for binding. The sheets are now in the correct order. They are loose & the numbers on them are meaningless…Please bind in ¼ green morocco ¾ linen…Arms on sides. Letter on back THE LOVED ONE. MS…EVELYN WAUGH…MCMXLVII”; and the second letter, August 29 [no year], in part: “I enclose two sham book backs from a bureau which I am having restored. Will you please cover both with calf…and two morocco labels on each reading: SELECTED / VERSE // MARGARET / WAUGH and SELECTED / PROSE // MARGARET / FITZHERBERT. These are for a wedding present in mid-October. I should therefore be most grateful if you could [make] the task priority.” Also included is an ink signature, “Please reback, Evelyn Waugh, 12th Dec 54,” on a sheet of her personal 6 x 8 Piers Court stationery. In overall fine condition.
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