Record ID:
240821
Accession number:
MA 6149
Credit:
Purchase, Gordon N. Ray Fund; 2004.
Description:
1 item (5 p.) ; 25.2 cm.
Notes:
"Personal" typed at top of letter.
Formerly secured with a straight pin.
The letter is addressed to Commander Burt of Scotland Yard, whose accomplishments included the arrest of atomic spy Klaus Fuchs in 1950.
West's book The Meaning of Treason, based on her articles for the New Yorker on British spies for Germany, was first published in 1947.
Summary:
Sending him a copy of her book The Meaning of Treason, explaining at length her anti-communism and the reason she undertook a work about the "Nazi traitors." With mention of John Strachey, Alan Nunn May, Cockcroft, Klaus Fuchs, Guy Burgess, Donald MacLean, Ralph Parker, Cyril Connolly, John Cockcroft, and others.
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