Joan saw Maurice off in Athens, another sad wrench.ĭiana, JJ and Anne finally turned up on the 2nd September. We heaved a sigh when they vanished after two days that had seemed like a fortnight … Your fortnight, I must say, passed with the speed of a weekend. Joan did her best, but most understandably subsided into a bored scowl after the first few hours. We had sixty subjects killed under us in an hour, till at last even Maurice and I were reduced to silence. They both seemed wet beyond words to us, without a spark of life or curiosity, and such a total lack of conversation that each subject died after a minute’s existence. good looking, and a champion guitar player it seems, and probably very nice. Soon after you went, I got a letter from Kisty Hesketh, introducing her brother called Rory McEwen and a pal called Mr Vyner. You probably know the former, v. You were missed a great deal by everyone, including the servants, who still talk affectionately of Kyria Anna. That green detective one, The Gilded Fly, which vanished so mysteriously, miraculously materialized on the hall table yesterday! It arrived just as we were about to run out of books. Joan is now in the thick of the first vol.-the second, which is reprinting, will follow soon, your bookseller says. Very many apologies indeed from both of us (1) for neither having answered your lovely long letter, full of exactly the sort of thing one wants to hear-it was a masterpiece, and by far the best of any ex-Hydriot so far and (2) for being such laggards in saying ‘thank you’ for The Dynasts. It really was kind of you to remember it. His mostly autobiographical accounts of his adventures through prewar Europe, southern Greece, and the Caribbean are regarded as classics. The following letter was written to Ann Fleming, a British socialite whose third husband, Ian Fleming, was best known as the writer of the James Bond series. Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011), who was once described by the BBC as “a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene,” was regarded as one of the greatest travel writers of his time.
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