Typed Letter Signed

Original Typed Letter, Signed, from Ethel Mannin to M L Austin, Discussing Various Writers, Personalities, the Kenya Situation, the Manchester Guardian, the New Yorker, Etc.

Single Sheet, Folded. Condición: Very Good. Original Letter. Single Sixpence "Air Letter" With Typed Text, 129 Typed Lines And Three Handwritten Lines, Signed By Ethel Mannin, Dated November 4Th, 1952. She Begins By Apologizing For The Delay In Replying To The Recipient's Response To Her Earlier Letter Discussing Ethan Frome, Being Almost Literally Up To Her Neck In Extremely Difficult Moroccan Proofs, Which Had Been Read By A "Nice Consul" She Met In Tetuan, For The Arabic And Facts. She Mentions How She Has Been Under Great Strain While Writing A Novel And Because Of T.'S Job-Hunting (She Got Him A Job Selling Books At Foyle's). She Thanks The Recipient For Sending Nylons, And States She Gave Flannels From The Last Parcel To T, And A Shirt To Francis. She States That She Can Get Him Copies Of This Was A Man At Trade Price, But Unless He Wants Vast Numbers, She Will Send Them As A Gift. She Mentions Her Recent Letter About Paperback Rights, Published In The Guardian, And That It Was Taken Up And Quoted By The Bookseller. "Bernard Very Sweetly Gave Me The New Huxley For My Birthday. Reading An American Novel Called The Caine Mutiny Which Is A Best Seller Here And Which I Think Very Good Indeed. I've Never Liked Anything Of Waugh's Except A Handful Of Dust. He Is A Quite Horrible Person. So Plain Nasty In His Snootyness And Superiority, & So Rude [Underlined], Almost Pathologically So. I Dropped Louis Marlowe After He Wrote An Abominable Vansittarish Book Called Forth Beast - After Germany Was Beaten & Starving - And For Saying He Could Think Of So Many Good Reasons For Not Sending Food To Germany - & Him A Great Food-Guzzler, Gourmet, Bon-Viveur & The Rest Of It; I Just Cldn't Like Him Anymore.I Feel That People Must Have Some Very Special Lovable Qualities If One Is To Forgive Quite Abominable General Ideas. And Then, Apart From Disagreeing With Certain Ideas, Some Ideas Are So Filthy That Its Not A Question Of Not Agreeing But Of Being So Sickened Thant One Only Wants Not To Have To Do With That Person. I Am Watching The Kenya Business Very Closely; I Know Jomo Kenyatta; Neither Reg [Reginald Reynolds, Her Husband] Nor I Like Him, But To Try To Make Out He's A Communist Is Abominable. There Is No Mau-Mau, You Know; No Such Organization; What Does Exist Is An Angry Anti-White Mass Of Land-Hungry Tribes-People-Pledged To Get The Whites Out. There Is No Such Kikuyu Word As Mau-Mau. I Read The M Guardian These Days & They've Been Ery Good About The Whole Business. Fenner Brockway . Has Protested Abt Being Accompanied By An Armed Guard Everywhere . And They Keep On Arrresting Any African He Does Meet, One After Another. Well, They're Being Fools. I Intend To Try To Sell A Story To Them When I've Finished The Novel. I'll Need To Make Some Ready Money" [Stating That She Spent The Money From The Moroccan Book Already On Her Mother's Allowance And Support For Manchester Anarchists.] In 1964 She Traveled Through The United States, Meeting Austin In California, Staying With Him And Traveling In California With Him. She Wrote A Book About The Trip, "An American Journey" [Hutchison, 1967], Which She Dedicated "For Rickey With Whom I Made Some Of These Travels, And To Whom I Owe So Much - In Enduring Friendship". Austin Was Also The Dedicatee Of Her 1951 Novel At Sundown The Tiger, "For Rickey Austin, If Only Because He Loves Cats, This Story Of The Noblest Cat Of All, With Gratitude And Affection." With, A Copy Of The Novel, Putnam 1951, In Jacket. Signed by Author(s). Nº de ref. del artículo: 021110

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