Fitzgerald (Penelope) Two autograph letters signed

Both letters addressed to Mr Jeremy Magorian; one reading "Innocence, I suppose, counts as a historical novel, as it's about Italy in the 60s, but I have a sort of fondness for it anyway. I'm afraid we haven't any Joliffe/Chatterton relatives that I've ever heard of , so I have nothing to report there, but 'Valpy' I've always been told is Italian in origin, Volpe I suppose. It's certainly not common, although there's a Valpy Street in Reading, where a notorious murder was committed...Alas, I haven't any relation in Venice. The trouble is that. although Valpy is an uncommon name, Knox, of course, isn't. I've heard it said that it's 'common as blackberries in County Cork'", one page 4to, 21 February 1992. The second letter thanks Mr Magorian "for your kind words about The Blue Flower" and adds "I put my whole heart into it, in spite of my wretched German - but now the German translation is coming out and I am getting polite, but very definite, protests from German professors - however, a novel is not the same thing as a biography and its specifications (If that's the right word) are quite different", oblong 8vo, 18 May 1997; together with printed memorial service "for the life and work of Penelope Fitzgerald" (3)

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