TLS signed “Mother (Rose),” one page both sides, 8.25 x 10.5, August 4, 1954. Letter to her children, written while vacationing on the French Riviera. In part: "Here I am in the Cote d'Azur and it is beautiful, as you know, and as you have seen in all the travel catalogues. Your father and his confreres picked out a very beautiful house for us all. It is a villa on the water and is terraced in the front with 5 or 6 terraces of beautiful flowers, all very lovely and all very different…We went to Eden Roc on Monday and I must say it has lost some of its glamour. The group has definitely diminished in size and the joke around is that the water is very salty this year filled with Mr. Sellar's tears. We saw a few of the beautiful bronze figures draped around the pool but now, of course, we have seen so many bikinis at home we don't stand around and gaze at them as we used to in the old days…We got a glimpse of Pam Churchill who had just arrived with her son Winston. She looks very well and I suppose is down here for the month…Your father went to a gala one night at Cannes and it was very disappointing. Nobody was in evening clothes. However, this Friday night we are going to Monte Carlo where we hear it is much more interesting…We have the usual retinue of servants who don't speak English and so it all makes it very interesting." In very good to fine condition, with a crease to the upper left corner, and two paperclip impressions to the left edge.
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