Add MS 74226

Evelyn Waugh Biography. Vol. i (ff. 494); [1933]-[ca. 1974], n.d. Draft of ‘Preface’ and Chapters One to Eleven, with two typewritten folios, apparently later drafts (ff. 335-336). Enclosures include: ff. 63-80. Photocopy of reports obtained from the Public Record Office relating to Waugh’s report for the Foreign Office on the Roman Catholic Church in Croatia: - f. 81. Undated autograph letter from Waugh to Sykes: - ff. 347-350. Letter to Sykes from Gabriel Dru, née Herbert (b.1911), sister of Waugh’s second wife, Laura, née Herbert (b.1916, d.1973): - f. 352. Photocopy of a letter from William Nicol Roughead (‘Roughie’) (b.1905, d.1975), of A. D Peters, to Waugh: - f. 398. Typewritten letter from Waugh to his second wife, Laura, sent from Abyssinia.

includes:

• ff. 63-80 Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh, novelist: Reports relating to a Foreign Office report on the Catholic Church in Croatia prepared by Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh: 1945: Copy.
• f. 81 Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh, novelist: Christopher Hugh Sykes, author: Letter to Christopher Hugh Sykes from Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh: n.d.
• f. 347 Christopher Hugh Sykes, author: Gabrielle Dru, née Herbert; sister-in-law of E A S J Waugh: Letter to Christopher Hugh Sykes from Gabrielle Dru: circa 1974.
• f. 398 Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh, novelist: Laura Laetitia Gwendolen Evelyn Waugh, née Herbert; 2nd wife of Evelyn Waugh: Letter to Laura Laetitia Gwendolen Evelyn Waugh from Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh: 1935: Typewritten.
• f. 398 Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh, novelist: William Nicol Roughead, partner at A D Peters publishing: Letter to Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh from William Nicol Roughead: 1933: Copy.