Lot Essay
Sayers and Wilfred Scott-Giles, an expert in heraldry, invented a series of eccentric ancestors for her aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. Their "discoveries" were privately published in two pamphlets, both written by Sayers, the Account of Lord Mortimer Wimsey appearing a year after Papers relating to the Family of Wimsey of 1936 (see the previous lot). The post-war Aeneas at the Court of Dido is a poem of 22 stanzas.