Typed Letter Signed

GREENE, Graham

Publication Date: 1967

About this Item

("Graham") 1 page, June 12, 1967, to his old friend Richard [Blake Brown], beginning, 'I am so sorry about the increasing pain. Increasing age, as I know to my cost, can only be temporarily dealt with!' Greene describes how he had once been helped through 'a period of very deep depression' by a combination of sleeping pills at night & Dexedrine in the morning, as prescribed by 'a very good doctor and psychiatrist, Strauss'. He has been re-reading with enormous pleasure Blake Brown's Autobiography of a Young Ex-Parson ('Quite unique in its wit of a specialized character.I would recommend it as a bedside book to anyone and the pages are heavily scored in the margins.'). 8" x 6 1/4", on his engraved 130 Boulevard Malesherbes, Paris letterhead. Fine (few spots on upper right). Brown (1902-1968), 'American priest & sub-Firbankian gay novelist': a friend of Greene's since their schooldays together at Berkhamsted; after Cambridge (where he met his closest friend, Norman Hartnell), he took Holy Orders, then, disillusioned, gave up the Church for some years, before returning to it in the late 1930s, & becoming a diligent chaplain to the Royal Navy & Bristol Prison; wrote the serious Apology of a Young Ex-Parson (1932), poetry, & travel books, but also a series of lighthearted novels; an eccentric with a pathological hatred of the telephone & a fatal weakness for gin & Cinzano (which he called 'gin & Sin'); his circle of friends & acquaintances included Denton Welch, Lord Alfred Douglas, John Betjeman, & A.J.A. Symons.

Seller Inventory # 611331

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Typed Letter Signed
• Publication Date: 1967
• Binding: No Binding
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
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