THE HIGHLANDER. A PLAY IN ONE ACT. TYPESCRIPT

Original Publisher's Copy 4to. pp 19, typed recto only with many tight red underlinings a couple of corrections in his hand and one passage crossed out in ink. Address on title page handwritten by Cornwallis West– West, 8, Sterling Street, S.W.7. Beneath a crosed out address of the Guards Club in Brook Street W1. Circa 1930; no date given. Brown cord folder with lilac raffia string as hinge and typed blue title stating this is the second carbon. Play with three characters a woman ( Margaret Hewitt) who meets up with her old pre marrage lover and her husband a Scottish tobacconist - it appears the husband is a drunken brute and there is much confrontation between him and the lover and the wife with shouting and raging -- it appears the lover triumphs.Major George Frederick Myddleton Cornwallis-West (1874–1951) was a British Army officer, author, and prominent society figure,best remembered for his 1930 memoir Edwardian Hey-Days: Or, A Little About a Lot of Things, and his high-profile marriages to Lady Randolph Churchill and actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Life. .Career: Served as a British Army officer. He went on to work as a financial consultant, but suffered severe financial difficulties and was declared bankrupt in 1916 before later repaying his debts.Major Works Edwardian Hey-Days (1930): An entertaining, anecdotal memoir of high-society life, notable figures, and his own experiences in early 20th-century Britain. Very good. Slight edgewear.…