BROWN, Ivor John Carnegie (1891-1974). Author & essayist. Editor of the Observer.
Typewritten Letter Signed to Joan Forman, 2 pages 8vo, 20 Christchurch Hill, Hampstead, 25 April 1961. Discussing the anomolies of English spelling.

'... I think American spelling is often more sensible than ours. They keep to traveler, for example, as opposed to our traveller. Why the double "l"? We do not write of toillers who stoke the boillers. ...'

Provenance: Sothebys, 17 December 1996, Lot 208, sold on behalf of the Royal Society of Literature.

£40 [No: 21471]