IN TEARING HASTE : Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor. This item is unavailable.IN TEARING HASTE : Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor

This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. This copy has been signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor, Deborah Devonshire and the editor Charlotte Mosley on the title page. This book is from the library of Colonel Nicolas Davies. Queen’s Royal Regiment. Royal Regiment of Artillery. Secretary for Appointments and Chief Clerk, Duchy of Lancaster. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. In spring 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire - youngest of the six legendary Mitford sisters - invited the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor to visit Lismore Castle, the Devonshires' house in Ireland. This halcyon visit sparked off a deep friendship and a lifelong exchange of sporadic but highly entertaining letters. There can rarely have been such contrasting styles: Debo, unashamed philistine and self-professed illiterate (though suspected by her friends of being a secret reader), darts from subject to subject while Paddy, polyglot, widely read prose virtuoso, replies in the fluent, polished manner that has earned him recognition as one of the finest writers in the English language. Prose notwithstanding, the two friends have much in common: a huge enjoyment of life, youthful high spirits, warmth, generosity and lack of malice. There are glimpses of President Kennedy's inauguration, weekends at Sandringham, stag hunting in France, filming with Errol Flynn in French Equatorial Africa and, above all, of life at Chatsworth, the great house that Debo spent much of her life restoring, and of Paddy in the house that he and his wife Joan designed and built on the southernmost peninsula of Greece. Full of laughter and humour, these letters will delight Leigh Fermor and Mitford fans alike. Ref B 4.…