Subasta Bidspirit | BRAINE JOHN: (1922-1986) English novelist

BRAINE JOHN: (1922-1986) English novelist of Room at the Top (1957), one of the English writers know... - BRAINE JOHN: (1922-1986) English novelist of Room at the Top (1957), one of the English writers known as the 'angry young men'. A.L.S., John Braine , one page, 8vo, Wakefield, 7 th June 1957, to [Eric] Williams. Braine writes to inform his correspondent how much he and his wife had enjoyed Complete and Free , remarking 'all the more so because we've just taken the same decision, and I leave the cosy bosom of local government at the end of the month' . Together with an autograph draft of Williams's reply, signed with his initials E.W. , one page, 8vo, n.p., 13 th June 1957. The hastily written draft, illegible in places, and written in pencil, thanks Braine for his letter of praise and expresses his pleasure in knowing that Braine is ' leaving the fold for a……life with no certain future' and wishes him the very best of luck. A couple of light staple rust stains to each letter, and Williams's draft slightly irregularly torn to the left edge. G to VG, 2 Eric Williams (1911-1983) English writer and former RAF pilot and prisoner-of-war during World War II whose most famous novel was The Wooden Horse (1949), made into a movie of the same name the following year.