| Author Quoted | Evelyn Waugh |
| Title Quoted | Officers and Gentlemen |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1955/08/06 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : Chapman & Hall. 1955 |
| Quotation | Have you read a wonderful book called Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell? It is perfect, in its way"”a beautiful job on the faculty of a "progressiv" women's college. You would love it. I also managed to get [Evelyn] Waugh's latest Officers and Gentlemen which is slow in parts, but in some spots as good as anything he has ever don"”especially a marvelous bleak island off the coast of Scotland, inhabited by a weird laird and a lot of commandos. Maybe you have read it. All this is a kind of a binge I have been having, before diving into the bushes to disappear. But at any cost get hold of the Jarrell book. I wish I could send you the copy I borrowed"”but it is borrowed "¦ |
| Quotation Source | The Road to Joy: Letters to New and Old Friends.; Edited by Robert E. Daggy. / [S.l.] : Flame. 1990, p. 220 |
| Letter to | Sister Therese Lenfoehr, s.d.s. |
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