MOSLEY, CHARLOTTE.(EDITOR). — In Tearing Haste : Letters Between Deborah Devonshire snd Patrick Leigh Fermor. (Signed).

ndon: John Murray, 2008. 9780719568589. 1st edition. A lifelong exchange of letters full of wit and insight, which will delight Leigh Fermor and Mitford fans alike. "There are glimpses of President Kennedy's inauguration, weekends at Sandringham, stag hunting in France, filming with Errol Flynn in French Equatorial Africa and, above all, of life at Chatsworth, the great house that Debo spent much of her life restoring, and of Paddy in the house that he and his wife Joan designed and built on the southernmost peninsula of Greece." Pp.xxvi/390, 16 pages of black & white photos + 2 line drawings, signed by both Charlotte Mosley and Deborah Devonshire to title page, notation (Windsor Festival Sept.08) to front free endpaper. Blue boards, dustwrapper. VG/VG.