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English author and playwright (1907–1989). Among the best-known film adaptations of her works were Rebecca and The Birds, both directed by Alfred Hitchcock. TLS signed “Daphne,” one page both sides, 5.25 x 7, Kilmarth par Cornwall letterhead, January 1, 1976. Letter to a friend. In part: “I have your book by my bed. No, I don’t know it, but may start upon it soon, but must first get through A. L. Rowse’s Dean Swift…He warned me that, if in my sequel to Golden Lads, I as much hint at Bacon having anything to do with the Shakespeare plays, he will poison me with arsenic, which he will keep in a special little jug and invite me over and give it to me instead of brandy! I dared not tell him that I had queried the fact that some 17 plays were published in the First Folio in 1623, when Shakespeare himself had been dead for seven years and these plays had not been printed before during his lifetime. So I must await the arsenic.” In fine condition. RR Auction COA.
