LEE LAURIE: (1914-1997) English Poet and Novelist, famous for his autobiographical trilogy including Cider with ...

LEE LAURIE: (1914-1997) English Poet and Novelist, famous for his autobiographical trilogy including Cider with Rosie (1959). A.L.S., Laurie Lee, to both sides of his personal printed correspondence card, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 24th September 1971, to [Neville] Braybrooke. Lee states 'I am afraid I knew J. R. Ackerley only slightly - well enough to salute in the street and perhaps exchange a few words with; but the only correspondence I had with him would have been in the late 40s, early 50s, in his capacity as literary editor of The Listener - where he would perhaps accept a poem of mine or reject one'. He continues to add that he possesses some letters, but that they would take some time to unearth, 'and being routine letters I doubt they would interest you. I regret not having known him better'. With one ink annotation by Braybrooke to a margin of the letter. About 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.