Wren, Percival Christopher

TYPESCRIPT LETTER, signed; on small cr. 4to United Service Club letterhead, dated by month only [Dec. 15th];

lightly creased from folding; partly backed onto a smaller unrelated card featuring a portrait of the poet Robert Burns and a newscutting about the Scottish novelist D. K. Broster; London, n.d.[c. 1924?]. *The letter, addressed to 'Miss Mackinnon', is in response to her letter of November 3, in which she evidently expressed her enjoyment of Wren's novel Wages of Virtue., and enquired if he was a descendant of Sir Christopher Wren. (The author replies that he is a descendant of Matthew Wren, Sir Christopher's brother). Wages of Virtue was published in 1917, and P. C. Wren died in 1941, so the letter was written between those dates. If the newscutting and Burns portrait card backing the letter were added by the presumably Scottish Miss McKinnon around the time she received Wren's letter, a likely date of 1924 can be surmised. The newscutting refers to novels by Broster written in the 1920s, including Mr. Rowl (published in 1924), but makes no mention of her best-known books, the Jacobite trilogy which began in 1925 with The Flight of the Heron. Item #162412

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