Typed letter signed with initials : Last House [Glen Ellen, California], to David Pleydell-Bouverie, 1979 Nov. 1.

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Typed letter signed with initials : Last House [Glen Ellen, California], to David Pleydell-Bouverie, 1979 Nov. 1.

1979

Saying that the "Getty Bash for Princess Margaret sounds suitably vulgar and very 'Texas' with 'covered atrium' and so on"; mentioning Janet Flanner, Ronald Blythe, Albert Kahn, Julia and Paul Child, and Norah Barr; discussing the weather; reporting that she went to see Simca [Simone Beck].

1 item (2 p.) ; 28 cm.

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