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TYPED LETTER FROM NOEL COWARD TO DOROTHY HYSON

1957réf. C1055501957. Fair. Typed unsigned 1 page letter on Blue Harbour Port Maria Jamaica printed note paper dated 28th of March 1957. Indubitably from and by Noel Coward and unpublished. Bought with a collection of letters to Frederick Ashton and Anthony Quayle. Dottie is likely to be Quayle's wife Dorothy Hyson - a good friend who had been in the film of his play 'Blithe Spirit '- she was known as 'Dottie' and had worked at Bletchley Park in WW2. It reads-"" My Darling Dottie. I did so love your funny letter and of course all the pretty things you had to say about ""Nude"" his recent pay Nude with a Violin did my old heart a power of good so I now feel a common low down ungrateful pig for not having written before to thank you.I was so glad to hear that mad Maxine was the one who bought my picture silly girl and that it is to come to a rather convulsive rest in her gracious home. I thought perhaps you meant that you were getting a seat on a banana boat this year but evidently I was wrong Ã however that is for another time and you can always look on me as you said as a prospective host! You will have to look sharp is all I can say if you want to catch the darling Feet Jamaican expat family who were friends as I believe their time is up next year. I am very fond of them Ã almost a foot fetish Ã and have just come back from a little jaunt with them to the Cayman Islands near here. All very fascinating as the islands are tiny and sparsely populated and inbred like mad in spite of being strict Baptist with the result that that they jibber and shake all over you but I didn't mind really I rather liked it. Now I'm going off on a few more Island hops Ã Puerto Rico Dominica and the Virgins if you will pardon the expression. Vasco di Gama had nothing on me. Phoebe and Herbert Hart Jamaica residents Phoebe made amazing rugs are going to have a dear little baby I expect you know that. Coley Cole Lesley NC's close friend keeps muttering will I give you his love so I suppose I'd better or else I shan't have a minutes peace. Heaps and heaps from me and I'm coming to Vieux Angleterre this summer so we will meet n'est ce pas At the bottom of the page he has signed off as 'The Prettiest and the Best' - this is followed by four inked X's. Chipped at edges sl wear slightly used but text complete. unknown

Burwood Books · Royaume-Uni135,00 £GB≈ 161,24 €

Queen Mary of Teck; Woodward, Ida; Williams, H NoelBiblio.com

Two works on Queen Consorts: Five English Consorts of Foreign Princes with A Princess of Adventure

1912réf. 003557Methuen. QUEEN MARY OF TECK - Two works on Queen Consorts inscribed to Lady Ogilvy her Lady of the Bedchamber. WOODWARD Ida. Five English Consorts of Foreign Princes. London: Methuen 1912. WILLIAMS H. Noel. A Princess of Adventure: Marie Caroline Duchesse de Berry. London: Methuen 1912. Two volumes both 8vo. Five English Consorts with six plates; A Princess of Adventure with seventeen plates frontispiece loose and trimmed by c.2 cm not affecting image. Original publisher's cloth gilt blue and red respectively both bindings sound; light foxing to prelims of Consorts edges browned; some offsetting and wear commensurate with age. Both volumes are inscribed by Queen Mary of Teck 1867-1953 to her Lady of the Bedchamber Mabell Ogilvy Countess of Airlie 1866-1956: "Mabell Airlie / from / Mary R / 1912." Consorts additionally bears the author Ida Woodward's florid presentation leaf in thick black pen: "May it please Your Majesty to accept this book from your faithful subject the author." Small bookplate to front endpaper of Consorts with coronet and initials "M.A." consistent with Lady Airlie's ownership. The juxtaposition of the two works is striking. Published in the same year both examine the fates of royal women navigating dynastic marriages and political turbulence. Queen Mary's gift of these titles to Lady Airlie-herself part of Mary's inner court circle-suggests a moment of shared reflection on queenship duty and female endurance within monarchy. The books were inscribed in the coronation year of George V 1911-12 with Queen Mary newly established as consort. Provenance and association: - Inscribed by Queen Mary to Mabell Ogilvy Countess of Airlie Lady of the Bedchamber. - Bookplate of Lady Airlie "M.A." beneath coronet. - Five English Consorts also a direct authorial presentation copy to Queen Mary. Royal presentation copies and a genuinely interesting set combining royal and authorial presentation. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1912. Methuen hardcover

The Plantagenet King · Royaume-Uni450,00 £GB≈ 537,45 €

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