![]() ![]() Strachey (June 10 and August 5, 1951) and one from Philippa Strachey (5 May, 1952, informing McClelland of Pernel Strachey's death). One letter (9th July 1951), is from Dorothy Bussy the others are from her sisters: two from J. (A fifth envelope addressed to McClelland is from P. Loosely inserted are four holograph letters (in envelopes), to John McClelland, an American academic who had deduced the identity of the novelist and wrote to Pernel Strachey to confirm it. *Published anonymously, the author was Dorothy Bussy, sister of Lytton Strachey, and wife of French painter Simon Bussy. 110(last colophon) demy 8vo mauve cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, boards a trifle canted, spine gilt slightly dulled top edges pink dust wrapper (designed by Duncan Grant), worn and slightly soiled, edges creased and torn, with pieces missing from top edge of both panels, the back panel detached, lacking the lower third of the backstrip, the remaining portion of which is rubbed and browned book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed The Hogarth Press, London, 1949. ![]()
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