LETTER: Typed letter signed, on Shakespeare and other topics.
Daphne DuMaurier on Literature
DuMaurier, Daphne. Typed letter signed, “Happy New Year / Daphne,” to a friend (“My dear”), January 1, 1976, one leaf of Kilmarth Par Cornwall letterhead, two pages.
After a pleasant overview of her family holiday celebration, she turns to literary pursuits: the book of her friend she plans to read, she says, “but first I must get through A.L. Rowse’s Dean Swift.
I lunched with him at Trenarren before Christmas, and it was most amusing. He warned me that if, in my sequel to Golden Lads, I as much as 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 me instead of sherry! I dared not tell him that I had queries 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. On the other hand, he has accepted my invitation to lunch here next week! …
She concludes with a paragraph on “Nice Chris Brennan,” “Walter” at Fowey Hospital, “Tessa,” and more.
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