Rebecca West, letter to Sir Weldon Dalrymple-Champneys

Autograph letter, signed, from the writer, critic and journalist Rebecca West [Dame Cicely Isabel Andews, nee Fairfield] (1892-1983) to Sir Weldon Dalrymple-Champneys (1892-1980), Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Health at the Ministry of Health, responding to one from him, n.d. (but after the introduction of all-numeric telephone numbers in London, 1966), in which she mentions that she had read his writings on brucellosis when she owned a herd of Jersey cows. The letter also mentions the American novelist Edith Wharton (1862-1937), whom West met at the house of the bohemian painter and writer Stacy Aumonier, and Sir Eric Maclagan, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

late 20th century

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Papers of Sir Weldon Dalrymple-Champneys, GC/139; papers of Letitia Fairfield, GC/193