Letter from Sybil Connolly, Dublin, to Charles Ryskamp, 1982 December 26 : autograph manuscript signed.

Discussing news of family and friends over the Christmas holiday; saying she spent Christmas Eve with Miranda Iveagh's parents and Miranda's aunt and uncle; saying they had lunch together followed by the carol service at St. Patrick's Cathedral;" adding "When the Service is over, & we emerge from the Cathedral, it is dusk, & the bells from all the churches over the City are pealing out. It is a wonderful time & the beginning of Christmas for me;" mentioning a visit, remembered by Miranda's aunt, Veronica Tritton,, that Ryskamp made to her at Parham and the book he sent her on Curzon which she cherished; saying that Benjamin Guinness (Lord Iveagh) "who has a remarkable library, in their house on the out skirts of Dublin, remarked that he would like very much to meet you - so, you see, you simply must come this Summer!;" saying that she will be going to London on February 11th for an appointment at the British Museum to see the Delaunay volumes and the V &A to do research in the Print Room, with hopes of also seeing the Delaunay embroidery while she is there;" adding "It was simply wonderful to meet you, at last. What fun we had that day at luncheon!;" explaining that the upside down scallop shell printed on her stationery is a reference to her paternal coat of arms and not Shell Oil Company; expressing her hope that "...the New Year be filled with Blessings for you, and bring us nearer to the exhibition of Mrs. Delaunay's work;" asking in a postscript "Have you got a Dixon Bird?"