A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and LettersDutton, 1984 - 358 pages |
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... November . My Lorenzo is so beautiful - even if he has had his hair cut rather shorter than usual - the shape of his face and the line of his cheek fill me with rapture . He grows more affected - his smile of self - conscious fatuity is ...
... November . My Lorenzo is so beautiful - even if he has had his hair cut rather shorter than usual - the shape of his face and the line of his cheek fill me with rapture . He grows more affected - his smile of self - conscious fatuity is ...
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... November . No letters today or indeed any other day it seems . Henry , Jockie , Barnicot , Friedbert , Sharp , London Mercury - all silent . I packed off my novel ( Some Tame Gazelle it's to be ) to be bound into 2 volumes ( in limp ...
... November . No letters today or indeed any other day it seems . Henry , Jockie , Barnicot , Friedbert , Sharp , London Mercury - all silent . I packed off my novel ( Some Tame Gazelle it's to be ) to be bound into 2 volumes ( in limp ...
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... November . Dinner at Jimmy's Mess and 22 Club dance - in splendid form , even dancing quite well . I no longer have an ache of misery . Oh how soon one forgets .... 19 November . Drove with Jimmy all along the sea front through ...
... November . Dinner at Jimmy's Mess and 22 Club dance - in splendid form , even dancing quite well . I no longer have an ache of misery . Oh how soon one forgets .... 19 November . Drove with Jimmy all along the sea front through ...
Contents
List of Illustrations vii | 9 |
Preface by Hazel Holt | xiii |
The Early Life by Hilary Pym I | xviii |
Copyright | |
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