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WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-1966). Series of approximately 33 autograph letters signed, 72 autograph postcards signed and three autograph annotations to incoming letters signed (the letters signed 'E. Waugh', the postcards mostly with initials, 'E.W.', a few postcards unsigned) to Jack McDougall, Gillon Aitken and other editors and staff at his publishers Chapman & Hall (subsequently Methuen), Combe Florey, Menton and elsewhere, 2 October 1961 - 13 February 1966 and n.d., together approx 105 pages, 8vo and 4to ; and an autograph manuscript draft, a paragraph for the introduction to Sword of Honour , 'On reading the book I realized that I had done something quite outside my original intention ...', half page, 4to ; with carbon copy replies and related correspondence of Chapman & Hall, Methuen and Waugh's agent, A.D. Peters, concerning his novels, and other material including proofs of the jackets for Basil Seal Rides Again and Sword of Honour ; in two hanging files.
WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-1966). Series of approximately 33 autograph letters signed, 72 autograph postcards signed and three autograph annotations to incoming letters signed (the letters signed 'E. Waugh', the postcards mostly with initials, 'E.W.', a few postcards unsigned) to Jack McDougall, Gillon Aitken and other editors and staff at his publishers Chapman & Hall (subsequently Methuen), Combe Florey, Menton and elsewhere, 2 October 1961 - 13 February 1966 and n.d., together approx 105 pages, 8vo and 4to ; and an autograph manuscript draft, a paragraph for the introduction to Sword of Honour , 'On reading the book I realized that I had done something quite outside my original intention ...', half page, 4to ; with carbon copy replies and related correspondence of Chapman & Hall, Methuen and Waugh's agent, A.D. Peters, concerning his novels, and other material including proofs of the jackets for Basil Seal Rides Again and Sword of Honour ; in two hanging files. CORRESPONDENCE WITH HIS PUBLISHERS ABOUT THE WORKS OF WAUGH'S LAST FIVE YEARS, principally Basil Seal Rides Again , the autobiographical A Little Learning and Sword of Honour . Waugh's letters deal with all the minutiae of publishing business, and show his keen sense of craftsmanship as a writer: the chief subject, especially in his steady stream of postcards, is textual emendations, usually 'literary' rather than 'literal' -- in Basil Seal , for example, the phrase 'it's like the Roman Catholics with their Index' is tactfully replaced with 'it's like the rien ne va plus at roulette' as an instance of laxness. Waugh is also quick to note any failings by his printers, 'Spotty' [Eyre & Spottiswoode]: 'Spotty doesn't understand about filling a page'; 'I have no one to write to in Spotty's reproductive organ', 'Despite Spotty's obstructions you have made a decent book of it'. A series of letters and cards express appreciation of Kathleen Hale's jacket design for Basil Seal , though worrying that the protagonist looks too 'plebeian and modern. He was farouche but aristocratic'; a letter of 30 August 1963 goes on to suggest 'I think Miss Hale underpaid'.