THE BOOKSHOP AT 10 CURZON STREET: Letters Between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill, edited by John Saumarez Smith
Date of First Publication: 2004
(Nancy Mitford to Heywood Hill, 2 July 1953)
‘I’ve got a luncheon party today. Violet [Trefusis] arrived for it yesterday – I was eating a little bit of fish. I said you must go away, but she tottered to the table, scooped up all the fish & all the potatoes, left half & threw the cigarette ash over it. – I could have killed her. Lady Montdore exactly.’