A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and LettersDutton, 1984 - 358 pages |
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Page 273
... suppose your Oxford Book is due out soon and I hope will be well received , though I suppose anthologies will always annoy as many as they please . I like Helen Gardner's very much but it is too big in actual bulk - to read very ...
... suppose your Oxford Book is due out soon and I hope will be well received , though I suppose anthologies will always annoy as many as they please . I like Helen Gardner's very much but it is too big in actual bulk - to read very ...
Page 286
... suppose one gets careless , and I was wandering about with my handbag on my arm and it was the kind that could be opened by a stealthy hand . Only the wallet was taken and it has since turned up in Debenham's ( Elliston's of old ! ) and ...
... suppose one gets careless , and I was wandering about with my handbag on my arm and it was the kind that could be opened by a stealthy hand . Only the wallet was taken and it has since turned up in Debenham's ( Elliston's of old ! ) and ...
Page 296
... suppose for a moment that he has ever read anything of mine . I find it rather difficult to compose polite non - committal sort of letters to him , not of course revealing that I know about the rather unkind crack of the writer in that ...
... suppose for a moment that he has ever read anything of mine . I find it rather difficult to compose polite non - committal sort of letters to him , not of course revealing that I know about the rather unkind crack of the writer in that ...
Contents
List of Illustrations vii | 9 |
Preface by Hazel Holt | xiii |
The Early Life by Hilary Pym I | xviii |
Copyright | |
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