LITERATI

[Hunter Davies, journalist and author; the Illuminati of Camden Town; social gathering] Presumably a Circular sent to distinguished people in the Camden Region suggesting social gatherings, with two documents signed by distinguished attendees

Author: 
Margaret [Forster] & Hunter Davies, the former novelist & biographer, the latter journalist and author,.
Publication details: 
Both signed documents headed 25 May 1983, but signatories vary.
£500.00

Three Pages, folio. Page One: Hunter Davies discusses his idea of local writers attending a regular lunch, to commence on 30 March [1983 presumably]. He concludes with a list of possible lunchers (from Margaret Drabble to David Cornwall [John Le Carre] to Salman Rushdie, and so on. SEE Image. Pages Two and Three, the signatures of attendees at this lunch on 25 May 1983 including Victoria Glendinning, Terence de Vere White, Eva Figes Shirley Conran, Jessica Mitford. These guests have also filled in the questionaire concerning attendance on future dates. See Image

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