Autograph Letter Signed ('Christopher Sykes') from the author and aesthete Christopher Hugh Sykes to the social anthropologist J. H. Driberg, arranging a meeting in Cambridge.

Author: 
Christopher Sykes [Christopher Hugh Sykes] (1907-86), English author, biographer of Evelyn Waugh, and traveller with Robert Byron across Central Asia [Jack Herbert Driberg (1888-1946), anthropologist]
Publication details: 
On letterhead of Badlingham Manor, Chippenham, Ely, Cambridgeshire. Undated [late 1930s].
£95.00
SKU: 12431

2pp., 12mo. Very good on blue paper, with letterhead printed in red. He begins: 'I must write to tell you how very much indeed I enjoyed the course at Cambridge and particularly your lectures. They electrified & stimulated my mind on a great many subjects of my previous study, introduced several quite new ones (including all the African stuff), and filled some large lacunae in my own sphere especially with regard to Georgia & Kurdistan.' He hopes to be able to put what he has learnt 'to some practical use', but before he does he also hopes to be 'at Cambridge again in which case I will certainly take you at your word & spend a night with you.' Driberg lectured in Anthropology at Cambridge between 1934 and 1942.