Pamela Hansford Johnson, 1912-1981. British author
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Finding-Aid for the Pamela Johnson Papers [00239]Collection Description
Letter, 1963
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The witty Pamela Hansford Johnson was a poet, as well as a prolific playwright and novelist, whose best known work is the novel, An Error of Judgment (1962). Her other novels include Night and Silence, Who Is Here? An American Comedy (1963) and Cork Street, Next to the Hatter's: A Novel in Bad Taste (1965). She is also known for her early affair with Dylan Thomas, who addressed several poems to her. She eventually married the writer Sir Charles Percy Snow.
The typed letter is signed “Pamela Snow” and id to Thomas H. Eliot, Chancellor of Washington University. She comments on her novel, Night and Silence, and a recent trip to the Soviet Union where she and C.P. Snow visited M.A. Sholokhov. She also mentions Burroughs Mitchell, an editor for Scribner.
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Johnson, Pamela Hansford, 1912-1981. British author