Add MS 74227 A

Evelyn Waugh Biography. Vol. ii a (ff. 615); Nov. 1939-[ca. 1974]. Draft of Chapters Twelve to Twenty-Six and ‘Postscript’. Enclosures include: ff. 14, 18-19. Printed extracts from Waugh’s diary describing his interview to join the Royal Marine Forces: - f. 113. Photocopy of a typewritten letter from Waugh to Brendan Bracken (b.1901, d.1958), Minister of Information, requesting three months leave to write the novel Brideshead Revisited: - f. 445. Typewritten transcript of an article in The Daily Express by Nancy Spain that prompted Waugh to sue the paper: - ff. 594-595. Photocopy of a typewritten letter from Waugh to Ann Fleming (b.1913, d.1981) relating to the death of Sir Winston Churchill (b.1874, d.1965).

includes:

• ff. 14, 18 Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh, novelist: Published extracts from the diary of Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh: 1939: Printed.
• f. 113 Brendan Bracken, Viscount Bracken: Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh, novelist: Letter to Brendan Bracken from Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh: 1944: Copy.
• f. 445 Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh, novelist: Nancy Spain, journalist: Transcript of an article in the 'Daily Express' by Nancy Spain relating to Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh: 1956: Typewritten.
• f. 594 Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh, novelist: Ann Geraldine Mary Fleming, née Charteris; wife of Ian Fleming: Letter to Ann Geraldine Mary Fleming from Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh: 1965: Copy.