Typed Letter signed, to Hunter Davies.

Bookseller Notes

Dame Rebecca West writes to the biographer and novelist Hunter Davies, with regard to his work on George Stephenson; West has a friend who would like to know what to do with the diary of an Elizabeth Ridder - Stephenson's god-daughter - which narrates 'a journey down the Nile with Robert Stephenson and a mixed bag of friends'. Though she concedes that it does not seem 'a thing that would interest an agent, [...] it might interest some scholar' and 'is definately[sic] not the sort of thing that should be thrown away'. Davies' annotations pertain to the likely academic interest, but the fate of Ridder's diary in unclear - it does not seem to have ever been published.