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EVELYN WAUGH (1903-1966)
A one page part holograph manuscript of 33 lines in Waugh's hand, signed, entitled: "The New Rustics. A Social Analysis," discussing the British attitude to work: "As a nation we not only dislike our work; we have a peculiar aversion to our sources of income ... We treat the making of money as a crude physical function," which he claims is the reason for the changing population of the countryside: "A hundred years ago 'the country' was the source of income. People came to London to enjoy themselves ... Nowadays London is the place where people go to earn their livings." He approves of the growing market in small country houses: "house agents business in small country houses is so brisk that, if one owns one, one is solicited to sell it, on an average of once a month. The small houses change hands like stocks and shares," with the result that: "Their occupants are a new social class who form an extremely happy community ... composed from three sources so different as to give a delightful and rare variety to local entertainment."
A one page part holograph manuscript of 33 lines in Waugh's hand, signed, entitled: "The New Rustics. A Social Analysis," discussing the British attitude to work: "As a nation we not only dislike our work; we have a peculiar aversion to our sources of income ... We treat the making of money as a crude physical function," which he claims is the reason for the changing population of the countryside: "A hundred years ago 'the country' was the source of income. People came to London to enjoy themselves ... Nowadays London is the place where people go to earn their livings." He approves of the growing market in small country houses: "house agents business in small country houses is so brisk that, if one owns one, one is solicited to sell it, on an average of once a month. The small houses change hands like stocks and shares," with the result that: "Their occupants are a new social class who form an extremely happy community ... composed from three sources so different as to give a delightful and rare variety to local entertainment."