Autograph Letter Signed, to Tamara, Framed with Photographic Portrait

by Cecil Beaton

$1,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

1 vols. One leaf, recto only, on personal stationery; rust stain from paper clip top left; framed with black-and-white portrait of Beaton. Item #368226 Vaynol — also spelled Faenol — was the Welsh estate of the unconventional Sir Michael and Lady Caroline Duff. Dating from the Tudor period, and surrounded by a seven-mile stone wall, the house was the site of frequent visits by such esteemed guests as the Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth,

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