Literary
POWELL
(Dilys, 1901-1995, Writer and Film Critic)
Autograph Postcard Signed to George M. Richards of Poole, Dorset,
sending Best wishes, Christmas, New Year, or any other time, adding (Electricity cut so writing by candlelight, more illegibly than ever), on the recto is a colour reproduction of George Scharf's Staircase of the Old British Museum including the giraffes, 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.
Stock No. 54602