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Dossé, Philip.
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Description
- Collection of letters to him by writers, critics, philosophers, politicians and public figures, mostly relating to reviews and other contributions to Books and Bookmen, including by:
- ink on paper
Graham Greene (2, responding to a suggestion that he chose who to review his latest book: "...I dont know who are my principal enemies so I can't suggest any of them to you..."), Henry Williamson (to Oswald Mosley), Jessica Mitford, J.B. Priestley (17), Auberon Waugh (5), Edna O'Brien, Sacheverell Sitwell (c.24, including on Augustus John), Beverley Nichols (11), Christopher Sykes (c.24), Oswald Mosley (c.28), Diana Mosley (c.85, including on biographies of her sisters Nancy and Unity - "It's full of lies" - Hitler and the 1930s, and other subjects for reviews: "...I'm having a shot at Lytton Strachey..."), W.H. Auden (10), Stephen Spender, John Betjeman (19), Terence Rattigan, Ken Russell (5, and a draft review), Graham Sutherland (2), Douglas Cooper (c.80, plus draft reviews), Harold Acton (c.50), John Summerson (c.20), Cyril Beaumont (12), Lincoln Kirstein (2), A.J. Ayer (7), Isiah Berlin (3), C.P. Snow (5), F.R. Leavis (c.25), A.L. Rowse (c.20, including on Shakespeare), Sir John Glubb (c.24), Sir Max Malloway (3), Lord Mountbatten (3, and a photograph), William Haley (c.20), R.A.B. Butler (Lord Butler, c.15), Enoch Powell (35), and Richard Crossman (c.10); altogether about 50 contemporary files housed in a single box, chiefly 1970s
Catalogue Note
Philip Dossé (d.1980) founded Hansom Books in 1950 and established a series of magazines. Most of the letters here relate to Books and Bookmen, but he also edited magazines on art, dance, film, music, theatre, and recorded music.