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Paper. Condition: Good. First Edition. An Original Handwritten and Signed Letter from Nancy Mitford to the daughter of Ottoline Morrell Julian Morrell. Dated 1946. An interesting letter from Nancy discussing friendship matters, visits from certain people and the grumbling state of France just after the war. Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell) (1906-1989), Former wife of Sir Victor Goodman, and later wife of Igor Vinogradoff. English aristocrat, the daughter of Lady Ottoline Morrell. Her twin brother Hugh died of a brain hemorrhage three days after their birth. Julian Morrell first married Sir Victor Goodman, and later married Igor Vinogradoff. She died on 6 December 1989.Nancy Freeman-Mitford 1904 - 1973 was an English novelist, biographer, and journalist. The eldest of the Mitford sisters, she was regarded as one of the "bright young things" on the London social scene in the inter-war period. She wrote several novels about upper-class life in England and France and is considered a sharp and often provocative wit. Mitford's visit to France in late 1945 had revived her longing to be there, and in April 1946, having given up working in the shop the previous month, she left London to make her permanent home in Paris and never lived in England again. During her first 18 months in Paris, Mitford lived in several short-term lodgings while she enjoyed a hectic social life, the hub of which was the British Embassy under the regime of the ambassador, Duff Cooper, and his socialite wife, Lady Diana Cooper. Eventually Mitford found a comfortable apartment, with a maid, at No. 7 rue Monsieur on the Left Bank, close to Palewski's residence. She lived in the 7th Arrondisement on the Left Bank. "A very charming flat between the courtyard and the garden," was how she described her French home. "The days go by and I have no desire to move from my house and garden." Her sister Diana Mosley said, "As soon as possible, in 1945, she got a flat in Paris, where she lived for 20 happy years." She never lived in England again. Nancy wrote to her mother, "I am so completely happy here? I feel a totally different person as if I had come out of a coalmine into daylight? Oh my passion for the French!" . Size is 204mm x 125mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. Ref 19237. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. MITFORD, Nancy SIGNED by the author: Paris 1957 on half-title page [288] pp. Hamish Hamilton 1957 8 3/8" x 5 7/8" Jacket design by Cecil Beaton Voltaire in Love is a popular history of the sixteen-year relationship between Voltaire and the Émilie, the Marquise du Châtelet. Written by Nancy Mitford and first published in 1957, the book also explores the French Enlightenment. In March 1729 Voltaire was allowed to go back to France. In spite of his love for England, he had become homesick; like many a Frenchman, he could not stand the austerity. In well-to-do houses, according to him, there was no silver on the table; tallow candles were burnt by all but the very rich; the food everywhere was uneatable. The arts of society, the art of pleasing were hardly cultivated and social life very dull compared with that in France. Furthermore, the weather did not suit his "unhappy machine". He often said that his unhappy machine demanded a Southern climate but that "between the countries where one sweats and those where one thinks, he was obliged to choose the latter.". Signed by Author(s).