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This second volume of letters between 'one of Britain's greatest schoolmasters and a highly active publisher of equal distinction' (The Times) continues where the first left off and while much is as before, much too, is new. New absurdities and fools are dispatched with the old trenchancy and wit, more authors join those already mutually admires -- Orwell and E Phillips Oppenheim, Conrad and Cardinal Newman, Emerson and Ian Fleming.… (altro)
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All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm. DOROTHY OSBORNE, 1653
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This volume is dedicated by its editor to George Lyttelton's children, DIANA HOOD, HUMPHREY LYTTELTON, HELENA LAWRENCE, ROSE BOURNE and MARY STEWART COX
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Here is slightly more than another year's worth of this correspondence, starting where the last volume ended.
Introduction.
Finndale House Grundisburgh Woodbridge Suffolk
24 October 1956
My dear Rupert It is very odd how completely unable so many men are to put themselves in the place of their audience - so very unlike the old Duke of Devonshire, who yawned during his own maiden speech because, as he told somebody, 'it was so damned dull'.
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But even if it does, I feel fairly confident that the anthology (if any) into which it finds its way will be more akin to The Stuffed Owl than to one which skims the cream of English poetry of the last six hundred and fifty years.
This second volume of letters between 'one of Britain's greatest schoolmasters and a highly active publisher of equal distinction' (The Times) continues where the first left off and while much is as before, much too, is new. New absurdities and fools are dispatched with the old trenchancy and wit, more authors join those already mutually admires -- Orwell and E Phillips Oppenheim, Conrad and Cardinal Newman, Emerson and Ian Fleming.
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