[Compton Mackenzie, Anglo-Scottish writer.] Three Typed Letters Signed to Mr and Mrs Raymond [Raymont], with reference to Henry Irving, A. L. Rowse, Cornwall and the Seychelles.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The three items are in good condition, each with his firm signature ‘Compton Mackenzie’. Each is 1p, 4to, in good condition, folded for postage.Despite being scored through, one can see that the first and last salutation are addressed to ‘Mrs Raymont’, and the second to ‘Mr Raymond’. ONE: 23 November 1961. He is pleased that she enjoyed his book ‘Mezzotint’: ‘The setting is really the Seychelles but of course I had to lay it in the South Atlantic instead of the Indian Ocean.’ He agrees with her ‘about these efforts at modernity by some of my contemporaries. It always reminds me of the efforts of old people to remain young with the help of hair-dyeing etc.’ TWO: 6 February 1964. Scarcely more than a note. He remembers ‘the Froebel Institute but it was in Margravine Gardens beyond Talgarth Road, I expect the young Irving used to go down to Maraeon from Halsetown’. THREE: 6 September 1965. As a result of her letter he has ‘corrected “Heva” and “Bisgon” for a possible second edition’. He reports that he ‘had an interesting letter from A. L. Rowse the other day and I was gratified that he passed my Cornwall of nearly sixty years ago as correct’. He would ‘very much like to see Gunwalloe again in one way but I should hate to see the motor-cars etc, all over the place. I almost always make it a rule never to revisit the glimposes of the moon’.