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1. 2 Autograph Letters Signed and 7 Typed Letters Signed ("Larry"), 10 pp, legal folio and 4to, various places including Cairo and Sommieres, July 4, 1942 to January 10, 1979, most (7) to Henry Miller regarding writing, etc., most with original transmittal envelopes, generally good. 2. Signed Photograph ("Lawrence Durrell"), 8 by 10 inch silver gelatin print, 1985, also signed by photographer at lower right, very light wear. Henry Miller was enormously influential on Lawrence Durrell from the 1930s in Paris on. In the earliest letter to Miller here, written 1942 from Cairo while working as a press attache to the British Embassy, Durrell writes: "I live an entirely artificial life doing work I cannot talk about which requires a little low cunning but no creative thought ... The old free world has broken up except in England. I sit here thinking nothing, writing nothing of any quality, and suffering hack journalists to criticise my grammar, writing articles, sleeping, drinking...." He closes by reporting he has sent his poems to Faber.