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Du Maurier (Daphne, 1907-1989). A group of three typed letters signed, 'Daphne du Maurier', Kilmarth, Par, Cornwall, 27 November 1978, 18 September 1980 & 20 January 1982, all to Miss Rita Room, the first to accompany a signed copy of 'The Loving Spirit', 'My first novel, written 1929-30 at Bodinnick Fowey, where my sister still lives. I remember the pleasure and interest it gave me to write, all based on the life of the boat-building family whose real name was Slade. Coombe in the novel. The figurehead still hangs on the beam at Ferryside, my sister's home. I now live across the water and a few miles from Fowey. My childhood memories I put into a book coming out in paperback in December... ', the second in response to Miss Room's enjoyment from reading 'The House on the Strand', 'It can probably be rather confusing, but it was fun to write. I myself could not make up my mind what happened to poor Dick at the end. I somehow felt he was paralysed, perhaps in body only. But I never intended him to have been Roger Kilmerth in the past. The idea originally came to me when I first rented this house...', the third a short note saying that she has been in hospital and still feels weak, and is glad that Miss Room heard the recording of the broadcast, the second letter with a postscript thanking for the Edward Thomas poems, each one page, 8vo, plus a colour photographic postcard of Kilmarth, with a message to the whole of verso signed by Daphne Du Maurier, 26 June 1980, in response to her enjoyment of the broadcast from the house, and referring to her hazy memory now that she is 73, plus the aforementioned signed paperback of 'The Loving Spirit', Evergreen Books, 1940, signed, inscribed and dated November 1978 for Rita Room by du Maurier to title in blue ballpoint pen and with a colour photograph of the author pasted to facing page and inscribed beneath by her 'Daphne Du Maurier in 1977', old sellotape repairs and stains to inner margins of early leaves, original wrappers with dust jacket, a few old sellotape marks to inner flaps, 8vo (Qty: 5)