ID: 1544
Four typed letters signed ('Anthony'), with autograph manuscript additions, to Max Aitken.
EDEN, Anthony, 1st Earl of Avon

Category: Autograph Letters/Manuscripts, Signed

Place/Publisher/Date:
Rose Bower, Broad Chalke, Donhead House, Shaftesbury and Fyfield Manor, Pewsey. 6 June 1957-29 May 1961.

Description: Together, 5 pages, 8vo and 4to. A series of letters of a personal nature, interspersed with comments on international affairs in the aftermath of the Suez crisis and Eden's resignation. He comments on his health, on the Lebanon elections ('The Americans...seemed to think that having moved the Sixth Fleet and Jordan having quieted for the moment, all was well. In fact, of course, their troubles and ours, are only beginning. The Kremlin will not take that set back lying down and Nasser will do as he is told'), on the Anglo-American position in the Middle East, Kennedy, on fighting in Angola and on the writing of his memoirs.

Price £1,000.00 ()