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Waugh (Evelyn) Brideshead Revisited sgd

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Revised Edition', signed presentation copy from the author, inscribed to [Father] Alfred Gilbey on front free endpaper, with A.L.s. from the Waugh to Gilbey loosely inserted, dust-jacket, frayed and torn with loss, 8vo, 1945.

***Alfred Gilbey (1901-1998), Roman Catholic priest, chaplain for Fisher House, the Catholic Chaplaincy to the University of Cambridge. " His sense of humour, wit, and elegance completed a personality which made its mark in Cambridge during the thirty-three academic years and one term when he was in residence. The sight of Gilbey in the streets of Cambridge, attired in frock coat and broad-brimmed ecclesiastical hat, remains a memory of that period". DNB. The letter from Waugh is to confirm that he will give a lecture at Fisher House, and enquiring about the type of "member" he can expect to be addressing. He goes on to refer to one of his novels, probably this one..

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