POPE-HENNESSEY, Dame Una Constance (1876-1949). Writer.
Six Autograph Letters Signed to Hutchinson, in all 7 pages 8vo and 2 correspondence cards, 74 Avenue Road, August and September 1941, where dated. Good chatty letters, mentioning many of the well-known names of the day, and offering recollections of her ancester Sir John Pope-Hennessey.

'... Will Ireland do you think always play a lone hand? I mean by this is there any country or people with whom she would whole-heartedly co-operate? She cannot stand aloof from the post-war settlement because that will need every nation's good will to bring about. Of course you know The Ancient Grudge by Owen Wister? I read it in Washington. ...'
'... [Logan Pearsall Smith] was in fine spirits & full of stories about Santayana & Henry James & his visit to the Leopardi shrine. ...'
'... To me Coleridge is the most magical, Keats the most lyrical & lovely & its in the former's house that J.P. has installed himself. ...'

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