NÖEL COWARD (1899-1973)

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NÖEL COWARD (1899-1973)
Three autograph letters signed ("Nöel Coward" or "Nöel") to the English novelist Arnold Bennett, 6 pages, 8°, 111 Ebury Street, dated 12 November [1927] to 23 February [1928].
The first declining a dinner invitation due to evening rehearsal committments, to which Bennett has added a note in pencil "Well then, someone else? [in shorthand] I must ask him another time." The second thanking Bennett for his praise of Coward's first commercially successful play The Vortex, before continuing: "I am enjoying myself a lot, but should enjoy myself more if I could see you sometime soon. When the Bevan reherasals are over could we have lunch or something - My love to you and Dorothy [Cheston, Bennett's partner]." The third concerning a forthcoming meeting in Manchester.
Together with a carbon copy of a one page typed letter from Bennett to Coward, 25 August 1928, confirming an invitation to dinner. (4)

Lot Essay

In My Life with Noel Coward (1994), Graham Payn writes: "The greatest disappointment is the absence of letters. Some people seem to have kept copies of everything they ever wrote, but, while we have numerous letters to Nöel, we have very few from him."

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