Typed Letter, Signed, to the editor of the Manchester City News, correcting the newspaper’s derivation of his “pseudonym”
$300 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller
12mo. Slight darkening at lower edge. Item #300142 “Sir:“I hope that the pseudonyms you attribute to various writers are more accurate than the one you attribute to me.“‘Compton Mackenzie’ is not ‘Mackenzie Compton’ in private life, and Fay Compton’s name is really Virginia Mackenzie. It was her great-great-grandmother whose name was Compton, and this pseudonym was first
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