The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper

From Library Journal

The correspondence here, which began in 1932 when Waugh and Lady Diana met and ended in 1966 with his death, includes 250 letters from him and 100 from her. His are virtually complete, but only a third of hers survive. Artemis Cooper, the granddaughter of Lady Diana, has edited them superbly, providing an introduction and connecting material to explain the circumstances under which they were written and annotations identifying all people mentioned and incidents likely to be unfamiliar to current readers. She has cut some "planning and arranging" and "libellous passages, and some hurtful ones" and has also corrected spelling and punctuation. British literature collections will want these letters for the sake of completeness; moreover, they are fun to read. - Judy Mimken, Delta Coll. & Saginaw Valley State Univ., Saginaw, Mich. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.