The English author of fiction Rumer Godden (1907-1998) had nine of her works made into movies, including "The River" and "Black Narcissus". Klein comments that he is enclosing a copy of a review and that of a letter he wrote to the Editor of the Observer. Rumer Godden’s Hans Christian Andersen: A Great Life in Brief encompasses its subject’s life from his birth in 1805 into very lowly circumstances to his death in 1875 as a highly acclaimed. In his second letter, really more of a short note, Dr. Klein thanks her for the copy of the American edition of her book and comments on her writing about the Japanese professor who "learned Danish to read Andersen in the original". Together with retained copies of 2 of Richard Klein's typed letters to her, dated Apand August 25, 1955. 12 mo., cloth covered boards, hardcover, 206 pages one of the Great Lives In Brief Series very good in edgeworn dust jacket. Signed "Rumer Haynes-Dixon (Rumer Godden)". Klein for his review of her book in the "Jewish Chronicle", observing that he was the only one to mention that there was an index in the American edition of her book which was omitted by the publisher in the English edition and apologizes for a "slip" she made about "The Two Baronesses". Over 80 words typed on her 9 inch high by 7 inch wide "Pollards, Whiteleaf" stationery.
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