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WAUGH EVELYN: (1903-1966) English novelist and book reviewer. A.L.S., Evelyn Waugh, two pages, 8vo, ... - ‘Do you correspond with a great number of strangers in this way?’   WAUGH EVELYN: (1903-1966) English novelist and book reviewer. A.L.S., Evelyn Waugh , two pages, 8vo, Piers Court, Stinchcombe, Gloucestershire, 26 th January 1946, to a gentleman. Waugh states that his correspondent's letter and enclosure 'excites not only my gratitude but my curiosity' , and continues to pose a series of questions, 'Do tell me what prompts acts of this sort. It is not as though you had read my book or met me or written the article or even lived in Kansas. How did you find my address? Do you correspond with a great number of strangers in this way? Do they all answer? Do you paste the answers in an album?' , further remarking 'If you can spare the time to tell me it would relieve the very considerable bewilderment of one whose task it is to try & understand the workings of the human mind' . A letter of intriguing content. VG