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I never saw Monty James's writing but doubt whether he can have been more illegible than Lady Colefax: the only hope of deciphering her invitations, someone said, was to pin them up on the wall and run past them!
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I'm also told that the latest popular game in America is called Incest—all the family can join in!
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Rupert Hart-Davis
Born:
August 28, 1907
Died:
December 8, 1999
(aged 92)
Bio:
Sir Rupert Charles Hart-Davis was an English publisher and editor. He founded the publishing company Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd.
Known for:
The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde
Lyttelton/Hart-Davis Letters
Halfway to heaven (1998)
De Profundis: And The Ballad of Reading Gaol
The Glass Coffin and Other Stories (1962)
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