The Gorgeous Hussy


Book Description

An inkeeper's daughter, who has a close relationship with Andrew Jackson, scandalizes Washington. This novel, based on an actual historical personage, was made into a 1936 movie by the same name.







The Lyttelton-Hart-Davis Letters


Book Description

This surprising survival has been welcomed by all who know that letters can be the best kind of travelling or bedside reading. George Lyttelton was a retired schoolmaster who began to exchange letters with Rupert Hart-Davis, a London publisher, one of Lyttelton's students at Eton. The correspondence began in 1955 when Lyttelton was 72 and Hart-Davis was 48.