Autograph Card, Signed
1961.
An unpublished card from Evelyn Waugh to Christopher Sykes. One side of a Combe Florey House postcard, addressed and stamped on the reverse. Waugh conveys some confusions about his upcoming BBC broadcast on P. G. Wodehouse by quoting his agent (and Sykes's) A. D. Peters, "'The length of a 30 minute talk is roughly 4,200 words' [a great number] 'but the BBC are not ready to talk about terms... no length is fixed and no date is scheduled.'" He then conveys the imperative of quick remedy, noting "As I may die any moment, this confusion should be made clear", before signing "my regards to un?able".
The card follows up on Waugh's trip to London the previous weekend where he had arranged to meet with Sykes's BBC colleagues to discuss his scheduled broadcast in celebration P. G. Wodehouse's 80th birthday, and in defence of him against his accusers of Naziphilia in light of his wartime radio broadcasts.
PROVENANCE: From the estate of Christopher Sykes. One letter of seven housed in an envelope marked "Letters not given to Mr Amory". Mark Amory was the editor of The Letters Of Evelyn Waugh, in which this letter is not published.
Stock ID: 37550
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