THE MITFORDS:
Letters Between Six Sisters,
edited by Charlotte Mosley
Date of First Publication: 2007
The Mitfords:
Letters Between Six Sisters
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(Unity to Diana, 12 June 1934)
‘Such a terribly exciting thing happened yesterday. I saw Hitler. At about six last night Derek rang me up from the Carlton Teeraum & said that He was there. Of course I jumped straight into a taxi. I went & sat down with them,& there was the Führer opposite. The aunt said “You're trembling all over with excitement,” and sure enough I was, so much so that Derek had to drink my chocolate for me because I couldn't hold the cup. He sat there for 1½ hours. It was all so thrilling I can still hardly believe it. When he went he gave me a special salute all to myself.’
(Deborah to Nancy, November 1965)
‘Opening of Parliament was as beautiful (& comic mixed) as ever BUT I'm sorry to say the peeresses smelt. Can't vouch for the further ones but the duchesses were definitely high. Do you think they had rolled? Surely not, I mean where could they have found anything to roll in? Their huge & dirty diamonds surmounted their huge & dirty dresses, & as for the Life Peeresses their wild grey hair had been specially tousled for the occasion, talk about dragged through a hedge backwards, but where did they find the hedge? All very mysterious.’