6 Typed Letters Signed to Mrs Theodora Roscoe.

English historian and biographer of Pepys (1899-1985). All six letters are 1 page, 8vo. In poor condition: creased, frayed and discoloured, with ruststains from a paperclip. All six are signed 'Arthur Bryant' and three are addressed to Mrs Cecil Roscoe, presumably the recipient's husband's name. Two of the letters are addressed to Roscoe at the Society of Women Journalists, Stationers' Hall. In the first letter Bryant says he would be pleased to address the Society. He might however be forced to cancel, 'owing to my absence from the country on Service duty'. There is a short manuscript postscript. The second letter is no more than a note: 'I am afraid the talk on An Historian's View of the War would make a map essential; do you think it would be possible to have one of the world to which I could point?'. In the third letter he says he 'enjoyed myself enormously'. Barring absence from the country he will 'come again and talk on Pepys'. The fourth and fifth letters discuss arrangements for another talk, and the last letter begins 'I hate to say no or to temporise, but I have taken so much on in the past, and have suffered so much from doing it, that I am trying to keep my outside arrangements down for the coming winter [...] I find, with the passage of years, that speaking in public takes much more out of me than it used to'. The lot,