Rose Macauley - Letters to a Friend, 1950-1952; Rose Macauley - `Last Letters to a Friend, 1952-1958 (Two Volumes)

Complete in two volumes.  382pp; 288pp.  Both volumes illustrated with black and white plates.  Uniformly bound in red publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on the spine.  8vos.  Cloth a little faded and worn, gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends.  Upper text block edges dust dulled.  Previous owner's inscriptions inked neatly on front free endpapers.  Pages a little creamy else neat, clean and tight.   Both volues in worn, torn, chapped and chipped dust wrappers with minor loss at spine ends. Novelist Rose Macauley first met Hamilton Johnson in London in 1914 but they lost touch until, in 1950 Hamilton happened to read on of her novels and sent her a fan letter.  She replied and the correspondence, and friendship, blossomed into a chronicle of Macauley's return to England and to the Church of England, only terminating upon the death of Father Johnson in 1958.