Description
Waugh (Evelyn) Autograph Letter signed to Peter Luke, 2pp., 177 x 114mm., on paper headed St.James' Club, 106 Piccadilly, 4th September, 1964, apologising for inaccurately stating in A Little Learning that Luke's father had been eaten by a tiger in India and offering to correct the error in future editions, folds.
⁂ An unpublished letter from a repentant Waugh, promising to make amends for an error in his autobiography.
It appears that Peter Luke wrote first to The Sunday Times with his complaint, which then forwarded the letter on to Waugh. Luke's father in fact died of natural causes, Waugh seems perhaps a little saddened that he met a rather more quotidian end: "it seemed to us then a glorious death", however the correction was duly made in the 1973 edition.
Lot 66
Waugh (Evelyn) Autograph Letter signed to Peter Luke, 1964.
Hammer Price: £280
Description
Waugh (Evelyn) Autograph Letter signed to Peter Luke, 2pp., 177 x 114mm., on paper headed St.James' Club, 106 Piccadilly, 4th September, 1964, apologising for inaccurately stating in A Little Learning that Luke's father had been eaten by a tiger in India and offering to correct the error in future editions, folds.
⁂ An unpublished letter from a repentant Waugh, promising to make amends for an error in his autobiography.
It appears that Peter Luke wrote first to The Sunday Times with his complaint, which then forwarded the letter on to Waugh. Luke's father in fact died of natural causes, Waugh seems perhaps a little saddened that he met a rather more quotidian end: "it seemed to us then a glorious death", however the correction was duly made in the 1973 edition.
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