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LOT 728:
DU MAURIER DAPHNE: (1907-1989) English novelist. A good A.L.S., Daphne, four pages, 8vo, Menabilly,
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DU MAURIER DAPHNE: (1907-1989) English novelist. A good A.L.S., Daphne, four pages, 8vo, Menabilly,
‘We have just moved into this lovely derelict mansion,
the original more or less of “Manderley” in Rebecca’
DU MAURIER DAPHNE: (1907-1989) English novelist. A good A.L.S., Daphne, four pages, 8vo, Menabilly, Par, Cornwall, 1st January 1944, to Gwenllyan [Davies]. Du Maurier thanks her friend for their letter and remarks 'My life is very much the same as yours, except that Nanny acts as cook - housekeeper while I am nurse-maid, kitchen maid, wood-boy, coal-heaver, and all the rest', further adding 'To add to our labours, and yet in a sense to make them more enjoyable, we have just moved into this lovely derelict mansion, the original more or less of “Manderley” in Rebecca. Its been “let” to me for a song, but I have broken myself by installing electric light and other amenities. However, once we settle down it will be a heavenly lunacy, even if I spent all my time cutting trees for fires', and also writing of the family Christmas, 'Boy [her husband, Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Browning] arrived for Christmas, and although we had all just risen from flu sick beds we managed to have the usual tree, plum puds, turkey for the children. The latter all getting large and thoroughly out of hand', and her current work, 'In all this I struggle to produce a film and a play - the play should see the lights of London by the spring, I don't know about the film'. A letter of fine content, particularly for its reference to Rebecca. VG
