MAUD DIVER - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED 06/1939 - HFSID 317619
Sale Price $165.00
Reg. $200.00
MAUD DIVER
The fiction and non-fiction chronicler of the British Raj in India
signed this note on holiday stationery.
Autograph Note signed: "(Mrs.) Maud Diver", 1 page, 4½x5½. Tal
au Veau, Pancotone, Dorset [England], 1939 June. On holiday
stationery, in full: "You are very welcome to my autograph for what it
is worth. I am so sorry to hear of your great affliction. Yours truly".
Maud Diver (1867-1945), born Katherine Helen Maud Marshal in the
Punjab, British India, was a prolific writer of fiction and nonfiction in the
early twentieth century, popular from her first novel, Captain Desmond, V.
C. (1907). A chronicler of the British Raj, she was a favorite of the
royal family. The strains of mixed Anglo-Indian marriage was a common theme
in her novels. Her last book, written shortly before Indian independence, was
The Unsung: a Record of British Service in India (1945). Creased and
toned. Fine condition.
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