RARE “English Author\" Laurence Meynell Hand Written 5 Page Letter Dated 1948 for Sale

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RARE “English Author\" Laurence Meynell Hand Written 5 Page Letter Dated 1948 For Sale

Up for sale "English Author" Laurence Meynell Hand Written 5 Page Letter Dated 1948.

August 1899– 14 April 1989) was the English author of over 150 books, who wrote

also as Valerie Baxter, Robert Eton, Geoffrey Ludlow and A. Stephen Tring. Meynell

was born in Wolverhampton, the

youngest son of Herbert Meynell, chairman of a brass-founding firm, and his

wife Agnes Mary Sollom. He was sent to the oldest Catholic boarding school in

the country, St Edmund's College, Ware,

and then served in the artillery in the First World War. He worked for a time as an estate agent and

as a schoolmaster before becoming a professional writer in the 1920s. A

contemporary satire, Mockbeggar (1924), won him the Harrap

Fiction Prize. Meynell wrote juvenile literature as Valerie Baxter

and A. Stephen Tring. His story for boys, The Old Gang, was

particularly well received. He also wrote detective fiction, with a recurring private-eye character,

Hooky Hefferman. Meynell

was twice married, his second wife was the actress Joan Henley from 1956 until her death in 1986. He had one

daughter, Ann Meynell b London 1938 by his first wife, Shirley Ruth Darbyshire

(1903–1955). He died on 14 April 1989 in Hove, Sussex.

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