Literary
POWELL
(Dilys, 1901-1995, Writer and Film Critic)
Autograph Postcard Signed to George M. Richards of Poole, Dorset,
with many thanks for a sheaf of entertaining letters & best wishes to the cats, on the recto is a nostalgic photo of an organ grinder with a monkey and his wife playing a cornet, printed Happy Christmas and a harmonious New Year from Dilys and Leonard Russell, 4¼ x 6, no place, no date, circa
Item Date: 1970
Background
Dilys Powell was film critic for the Sunday Times, 1939-1976, where her second husband, Leonard Russell, 1906-1974, was chief literary editor. Her first husband, H.G.G. Payne, 1902-1936, was Director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens, and she had a life-long love of Greece.
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