AMIS KINGSLEY: (1922-1995) English Novelist. Brief A.L.S., Kingsley Amis, one page, 8vo, Hadley Comm...

AMIS KINGSLEY: (1922-1995) English Novelist. Brief A.L.S., Kingsley Amis, one page, 8vo, Hadley Comm...
AMIS KINGSLEY: (1922-1995) English Novelist. Brief A.L.S., Kingsley Amis, one page, 8vo, Hadley Common, Barnet, Hertfordshire, 11th October 1971, to [Neville] Braybrooke. Amis writes, in full, 'Sorry - no letters from poor J. R. A.[ckerley] You should have had them and welcome if they had existed'. VG £80-100 Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher who edited The Letters of J. R. Ackerley (1975). Son of Patrick Braybrooke (1894-1956) English Literary Critic. J. R. Ackerley (1896-1967) British Writer and Editor of The Listener, the BBC's weekly magazine. Ackerley published many emerging poets and writers who would later become successful and influential in Great Britain. Ackerley was openly homosexual, a rarity at a time when homosexuality was socially ostracized and forbidden by law.