Mackenzie (Compton) Group of letters

Group of letters from Compton Mackenzie [Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie] to to the military historian Antony Brett-James, on various subjects. One letter thanks him for sending the proofs of his war memoir 'Report My Signals' "I was much impressed by it, and supported it strongly for a Book Society Recommendation. But please keep this to yourself, because other members of the committee still have to give their opinion", 22 September 1948; three letters from 1952 concern Brett-James's attempt to join the publishers Chatto & Windus ("I have written to Chattos about you, but I don't expect there'll be any chance of a vacancy there because Piers Raymond and Peter Cochrane are now Directors and both young men. Their reader is Cecil Day Lewis. I sympathise with your wish to be with them because they are really delightful people to be with, but I don't think you must have much hope", 27 March 1972); other topics include Mackenzie's military history 'Eastern Epic' (1951), which he admits is "going to be rather choppy", Brett-James's '5 Div. History', 'Piggy Heath' and Brett-James looking through the first seven chapters' of one of Mackenzie's books; eleven pages, 8vo & 4to, Denchworth Manor, 1948-1955; with a letter from Mackenzie's second wife (square of paper torn from the bottom right-hand corner), two of Mackenzie's 'Sidelight' columns from the Spectator, both 1953, and a 1938 article by him from the Listener entitled 'I Became an Author'; v.s. (small qty)

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