COOPER (Lady Diana, 1892-1986, Actress & Author)

Typed Letter Signed to James Barnes, “My dear Jim” saying that “It’s too dreadful. Duff and I have not got a free meal for the next two weeks. It is nothing but Naval Attaché lunches and Friendly Union dinners. The following week I shall be in Paris so it would have to be the week after that... The Elba plan suits my fancy very well...”, 1 side 8vo., Admiralty, Whitehall headed paper, 30th June

Born Lady Diana Manners, she was an English aristocrat who was a well-known social figure in London and Paris. As a young woman, she moved in a celebrated group of intellectuals known as the Coterie, most of whom were killed in the First World War. She married one of the few survivors, Duff Cooper, later British ambassador to France. After his death, she wrote three volumes of memoirs which reveal much about early 20th-century upper-class life.

Item Date:  1938

Stock No:  41855      £150

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