W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED - HFSID 4456
Price: $450.00
SOMERSET MAUGHAM
The author pens this letter of regret that he will not be able to attend a dinner
Autograph Letter signed: "W. S. Maugham", 1p, 5x6½. London, no date. On letterhead of
The Dorchester Hotel to De V. Payen-Payne. In full: "It is very kind of you, bit (sic) I'm afraid
I can't suggest an evening to dine. I am starting off for foreign parts at the end of next week &
meanwhile have to go to Kettering and back. The only free evenings I have I must keep for my
relations. Yours very sincerely." British author WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM
(1874-1965) wrote eight novels before publishing the partly autobiographical Of Human
Bondage (1915). His works also include The Moon and Sixpence (1919), based on the life of
artist Paul Gauguin, and The Razor's Edge (1944), the story of a young man's search for
spiritual meaning. Maugham was also a successful writer of plays, short stories and travelogues.
He worked secretly for several years, beginning in World War I, for the British intelligence
service MI-6, the inspiration for his story collection Ashenden (1928). DE V. PAYEN-PAYNE
wroteFrench Idioms and Proverbs (1893), translated French poetry and collaborated on a
French-English dictionary. Lightly creased. Minor nick at right edge. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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