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Hilary Graham, geboren in 1943
Greene (Graham) Series Of Sixteen Letters Signed (Graham), To His Fellow Novelist Anthony Powell (Dear Tony), The Majority Written In Greene’S Capacity As Director Of Fiction At Eyre & Spottiswode, The First Written From Wartime London When Literary Editor Of This Rag The Spectator (...London Is Quite Extraordinarily Pleasant These Days With All The New Open Spaces, And The Rather Mexican Effect Of Ruined Churches. I Have A Private Ambition To Do Free French Propaganda In French Guinea And The Ivory Coast From A Base In Liberia... My House Has Been Blasted Into Wreckage By A Land Mine, And I Sleep On A Sofa In A Gower St. Mews. As I’M Under A Skylight I Go Into A Basement When The Barrage Is Heavy...); Most Of The Letters Concerning The Reprint Of Powell’S Novel Afternoon Men For Eyre & Spottiswode’S Century Library (...I Disagree With Your Alterations Of Words Which Have Now Got A Kind Of Period Flavour... The Penultimate Sentence Seems Wrong... The Last Sentence On This Page Is A Bit Overdoing Things...) And Their Publication Of John Aubrey And His Friends, Others Suggesting Books For Review Or Commissioning Introductions (...I Have A Sort Of Feeling That You Are A Raffles Fan...); Together With Several Letters Signed On His Behalf (...I Have Just Been Signing The Agreements For Aubrey, Three Novels And A Reprint For The Century Library. I Have Seldom Signed Contracts With As Much Satisfaction. What About The Title For The Century Library? David Tells Me You Favour Afternoon Men. It Is A Long Time Since I Have Read The Books But I Should Have Inclined To From A View To A Death Or What’S Become Of Waring? On The Other Hand I Agree That Afternoon Men Is Very Representative Of Its Period...) And Two Letters By Greene’S Colleague Douglas Jerrold, The Company’S Managing Director (...I Was Very Astonished Just After I Got Back From The States To Find A Letter From David Higham Notifying Us That The Contract With You For Your New Novels Was To Be Regarded As Cancelled...); One Of Greene’S Letters Addressed To Powell’S Wife, Lady Violet, And The Last Entirely In His Hand, In All Some 25 Pages, Most On Eyre & Spottiswode Stationery, 4To And 8Vo, London And France, 1940-1986
