Les causes perdues : roman /
Violet Keppel, Mrs Denys Robert Trefusis (1894-1970)
Category
Books
Date
1941
Materials
Place of origin
France
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3167990
Summary
Bibliographic description
222 p. ; 19 cm. Loosely inserted: (at p.161) typescript letter, headed: Sissinghurst Castle, Kent; Tuesday [otherwise undated, but probably 26 September 1950]; addressed 'Darling'; signed 'A', presumably from Anna Macmillan to Vita Sackville-West; letter reports death of Lady Colefax and business matters at Sissinghurst while Vita is abroad; (at p.193): page torn from printed Italian memo book, with pencil manuscript notes of Italian addresses. Provenance: half title inscribed: "À Mitya, / [with half-title amended to read 'Ces causes perdues'] que tu as bien volulu qualifer[?] de balsaciennes - ... Fais en une cause gagnée! / Lushka / 1950." [i.e. Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) from Violet Trefusis (1894–1972)]. Binding: paper covers. Lower spine damage.
Makers and roles
Violet Keppel, Mrs Denys Robert Trefusis (1894-1970)