Subasta Bidspirit | BATES H. E.: (1905-1974) English

BATES H. E.: (1905-1974) English writer whose works include The Darling Buds of May (1958). An inter... - BATES H. E.: (1905-1974) English writer whose works include The Darling Buds of May (1958). An interesting A.L.S., with his initials H B , four pages, 8vo, Little Chart, Ashford, Kent, 2 nd January 1959, to Eric Williams ( 'Dear Bill' ). Bates states that as soon as the 'turkey orgy was over' he read Dragoman Pass , continuing to add that he enjoyed it very much and that several good things struck him about it, including the exciting narrative and philosophical edge ( 'Otherwise it might well have been Bulldog Drummond' ), and further remarking 'Of course the book isn't a novel, as you well know, but that doesn't matter. Another thing I like is that you've managed to give me (& damn few Iron Curtain travellers have) a clear & vivid picture of what the Balkans & the Danube basin are like. It sounds pretty damn grim to me. We have in fact got a very good Romanian friend who tells us how enchanting his country was before it got the comrades paradise conferred in it & I don't doubt it was. I think this sort of sticking-your-neck-out travel is just what you need, as a writer, for stimulus - though I've told you this before. It brings out the best in you & I look forward to the new trip & its results'. Bates also informs Williams that he was brought up in Northamptonshire, just over the border from where Williams is living, and that as a boy he often used to 'roam about the fields & copses that have now been absorbed in that gigantic U.S. mess of an air base at Chelveston. If you hear a voice crying for its lost world in the night-time it'll probably be mine!' . Together with Emlyn Williams (1905-1987) Welsh writer, dramatist & actor. A.L.S., Emlyn Williams , one page, 8vo, Pelham Crescent, London, 11 th October 1956, to Eric Williams, thanking him for taking the trouble to forward a letter and remarking 'I would have thought commercial TV would be more efficient, wouldn't you?!' Accompanied by a carbon typed copy of Eric Williams' original letter to Emlyn Williams. Also including an unsigned 6 x 4.5 photograph of Eric Williams. Two file holes to the left edge of each letter, only very slightly affecting the text, but not the signature. VG, 4   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.