Cookery Writers- Jane Grigson & Elizabeth David Signed letters to Paul Bailey

Group of letters by Jane Grigson and Elizabeth David to Paul Bailey, including: one letter from Jane Grigson, reading in part "It is hard to believe your Jerusalem was not taken from life. From the old people I've known, from one's own feelings, it was so exactly true and right from the first page. One sees the place so exactly, and the people. Yes about the Sound of the Mountain. I do read his novels again, and Tanizaki's, and over and over again The Tale of Genji. Colette, Henry James, Henry Green, certain Russian novels. And Peter Taylor. The one novel I covet personally, that I wish I had written is Middlemarch", 26 March 1976, with two signed postcards, one reading "Have just had a morning with the Bamboo TV Company who are doing a great series on mushrooms", 24 April 1989; four letters from Elizabeth David, one discussing her early career on stage "In the end I couldn’t take the theatre any longer. It was so frustrating discovering I had no acting talent at all. But in the early days of the Open Air Theatre I made some lifelong friends, like Leslie French, who was a magical Ariel and an enchanting Touchstone, and another understudy who became a really close friend and who later accompanied me as driver on my trips to France in search of regional cooking and wholesale produce markets. Watching Greer Garson snatching a goddess part in The Tempest - well she could keep that- from under someone else’s nose, just with a toss of her red mane, is another happy memory. We shared a dressing room with her and called her Gar Greerson as a tease. She was so imperious and so totally lacking in a sense of humour" and the arrest and attempted suicide of Paul Latham, 25 October 1990; another discussing a translation of Artusi cookery book "There was an entirely useless translation, or rather adaptation , a long while ago. I rather think it was done by an American woman called Charlotte Turgeon whose work was much like her name", 25 November 1990; v.s. (7)

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Provenance:

The estate of Paul Bailey.