ROSAMOND LEHMANN - AUTOGRAPH LETTER DOUBLE SIGNED 04/15 - HFSID 255348

ROSAMOND LEHMANN
The British author who wrote the popular play No More Music signed both of these handwritten letters and mailed them together to a friend!
Autograph Letter Signed Twice: "Rosamund" and "R.". 8x6. Two Letters. Two pages to each letter. Both feature letterhead from the Ipsden House in Oxford, England. One is dated April 15, the other is dated "Sunday". One letter in Full: "Darling Miriam - what is happening to you all? Where, how are you? I heard you weren't well I was so sorry…If I haven't communicated it's because of utter, interminable pressure of this novel, from which I see the prospect of relaxing until Xmas. I hardly see you these days! When do you move, if you do? I've been away, working, but lines are all installed for the winter. The children are flourishing. What about America for Kenneth? Send a line if you feel like it". Rosamond Lehmann (1901-1990) was an English novelist whose first book, Dusty Answer (1927), was a best seller, controversial at the time for its open portrayal of gay and lesbian relationships at Cambridge, her alma mater. In all, she wrote seven novels and a short story collection, translated two French works into English, and authored some nonfiction, including an autobiography. Her only play, No More Music, opened in 1939. Her novels The Weather in the Streets (1936) and The Echoing Grove (1953) were made into movies, the latter re-titled Heart of Me (2002). Lehmann was a member of the "Bloomsbury set," which included literature luminaries such as Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey. She was honored with a CBE in 1982. Mailing folds and creasing. Otherwise, fine condition.