Lot 31: CARRINGTON, Dora (1892-1932). Series of 23 autograph letters signed to Arthur Waley, Tidmarsh and elsewhere, 1919 and n.d., Waley's name in the salutation often replaced by a sketch of a whale or variants, a number of doodles and sketches

CARRINGTON, Dora (1892-1932). Series of 23 autograph letters signed to Arthur Waley, Tidmarsh and elsewhere, 1919 and n.d., Waley's name in the salutation often replaced by a sketch of a whale or variants, a number of doodles and sketches including drawings of Tidmarsh Mill, Soho Square and the cat Ptolemy, approximately 50 pages, 8vo.

Carrington's letters are full of warmth towards Waley, and gossip about her ménage with Lytton Strachey (who in a number of letters is laid up with 'a beastly disease called shinguls [sic]') and other Bloomsbury members, with occasional flashes of insight into her own character and activities: 'I liked you more the other night Because either you are becoming less Chinese, or I am acquiring more penentration [sic] into the Chinese character ... Short Comedy on my return at Gordon Square 11 ock. Scene. Hall. Bunny about to leave the House. Bunny. "Will you give me one kiss before Maynard comes IN -- " Yale Key turns the lock Maynard enters ripe with good living And wine from the Carlton. Frustration of Bunny. Triumph of Maynard. Its all very sad'; 'Oh how detestable are these cold mornings. You in your aloofness I know hardly consider such trivials. But to me they are immense ... Last night I dreamt of Ottoline -- & drowning tortoiseshell kittens the night before'; 'I am going to paint a portrait of Alix & Harry N playing chess. They are carrying on such a conversation -- Mr Trott. "unnatural vice". "not typical". "a market for the other kind". "what most womanizers demanded" what does it all mean'.

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