Nancy Mitford collection, 1966-1973.

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Nancy Mitford collection, 1966-1973.

Consists of thirteen autograph letters and twenty-nine autograph cards of Nancy Mitford to Elizabeth Forbes.

.20 ( one half-size archival box)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6912502

Princeton University Library

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Palewski, Gaston, 1901-1984

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Epithet: Colonel; French politician; lover of Nancy Mitford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001092.0x00026d ...

Forbes, Elizabeth, Mrs.

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G. Heywood Hill, Ltd.

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Mitford, Nancy, 1904-1973

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Nancy Freeman-Mitford was a British novelist and biographer. She is best known for her series of novels about upper-class life in England and France including THE PURSUIT OF LOVE (1945), and DON'T TELL ALFRED (1960). She also wrote four well-received, well-researched popular biographies of Louis XIV, Madame de Pompadour, Voltaire, and Frederick the Great. Mitford managed the bookshop on Curzzon Street in London, during World War II, and moved to Paris in 1945 where she died. From the...