BLANCH Lesley - ALS 1986 to Edmonde Charles-Roux Period_1700-1800

BLANCH Lesley - ALS 1986 to Edmonde Charles-Roux Period_1700-1800Lesley BLANCH (1904 2007) Autograph Letter Signed (Lesley) to Edmonde Charles Roux, giving a lengthy account of the problems she had encountered with her publishers and asking her to do me a good turn in offering a quote to publicize her new book. 1 page large 4to, Menton, 3 May 1986. Blanch, who lived in France and had been married to the French writer and diplomat Romain Gary peppers her letter with a certain amount of attractive franglais. Will

the French were forced to retreat

James Paull

15 March 1933

This is the economic side of the question which I feel incapable of dealing with

has lately left the Garrison

I will meet Quisling in Berlin and will discuss the arrangement with him

I hardly see a war memorial that I do not wish to veil

Perhaps I am wrong in thinking it is some good

Autograph Letter Signed (“Robt Calder”) to “My dear Bickerton” [Admiral Sir Richard Bickerton]

critic and editor of the Star and Sunday Express

it sadly does not appear to have made a great impression

Baron GERARD (1770-1837)