Description | Manuscript letter to Sonia from the arts benefactor Victor William 'Peter' Watson, reflecting angrily on the Joseph Louchheim libel proceedings over Mary McCarthy's story '<i>The Oasis</i>', and mentioning Lucian [Freud], John [Lancelot Agard Bramhall] Davenport, Dylan [Marlais] Thomas and '<i>Circus</i> magazine, his brother [Norman], and James Laughlin, Cyril Connolly, Lys Lubbock (née Dunlap) and Lauretta Hugo (1f). |