Autograph Collection.- Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Letters and cards

A large collection of letters from various Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature to Mr Richardson, mostly thanking him for his birthday wishes and congratulations on various honours awarded to the correspondents, some discussing political matters and their work, names including: Brian Wilson Addiss; Corelli Barnett ("As policy, what Bush and Blair have decided to do looks to me today even more misguided than before the attack began. We are now in a horrendous mess, politically, militarily, and in terms of Anglo-American reputation in the world"); Raymond Briggs; Charles Brian Cox; David Daiches; William Darlymple; Gerald Durrell; Jane Gardam; John Heath-Stubbs; John Hemming; Elizabeth Jane Howard; George Wilson Knight; John Lehman; David Lodge; Caroline Moorehead; Nigel Nicolson; George Painter; Frances Partridge; Kenneth Rose; Giles St Aubyn; Anthony Sampson; John Trewin; Mary Wesley; Philip Zielger; Paul Bailey; Jill Balcon; Georgina Battiscombe; Patricia Beer; Quentin Bell Hector Bolitho; Lionel Davidson; Penelope Fitzgerald; Christopher Fry; Giles Gordon; John Grigg; Walter Hamilton; Barbara Hardy; Barry Hines; Richard Hoggart; Angela Maureen Huth; Harford Montgomery Hyde; Vivien Noakes; Conor O'Brien; Frederick Raphael; Piers Read; Anthony Sampson; Alan Sillitoe; John Stallworthy; Emma Tennant; Count Nikolai Dmitrievich Tolstoy-Miloslavsky; Claire Tomalin; Auberon Waugh; Andrew Wilson; Kenneth Young; v.s. (qty)

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