The Climates of Love. [Translated from the French by Violet Schiff and Esme Cook.]

Bookseller Notes

Inscribed by the translator on the flyleaf, 'To dear Marjorie, with fond love from Violet, July 1957' - the recipient was Marjorie Wells, daughter-in law and secretary to H.G. Wells; the inscription speaks partly of the association between the Schiff and Wells families, but probably rests more on their common friendship with S.S. Koteliansky, whom Marjorie had cared for during the period of illness leading up to his death in 1955.