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Roald Dahl (1916-1990) – a 30 line typed letter on Gipsy House headed paper dated 23rd August 1983
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Roald Dahl (1916-1990) – a 30 line typed letter on Gipsy House headed paper dated 23rd August 1983 in which the author replies to a letter from a Mrs J M Bowen, a teacher by profession, in which she doubts the suitability of some of the morally questionable situations and characters appearing in his children's stories. Dahl begins 'I don't really know what to say to you because the points you make are essentially valid ones, but please remember that my job as a writer for YOUNG children (and by this I mean those who have not yet acquired the habit of reading) is to entertain them and not to teach them morals. Children below the age of eight or nine, as I am sure you know very well, are not fully civilized and have a different standard to the older ones. My feeling is that they treat the kind of fiction and fantasy that I write as pure entertainment and the only way in which they are influenced by it is that they begin to love books.' The lot includes a handwritten copy of Mrs Bowen's letter to Dahl, also a signed hardback copy of the 1960 Knopf edition of 'Kiss Kiss' (no dust cover), a 1980 first edition 'Tales of The Unexpected' and two other Dahl titles.
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Roald Dahl (1916-1990) – a 30 line typed letter on Gipsy House headed paper dated 23rd August 1983 in which the author replies to a letter from a Mrs J M Bowen, a teacher by profession, in which she doubts the suitability of some of the morally questionable situations and characters appearing in his children's stories. Dahl begins 'I don't really know what to say to you because the points you make are essentially valid ones, but please remember that my job as a writer for YOUNG children (and by this I mean those who have not yet acquired the habit of reading) is to entertain them and not to teach them morals. Children below the age of eight or nine, as I am sure you know very well, are not fully civilized and have a different standard to the older ones. My feeling is that they treat the kind of fiction and fantasy that I write as pure entertainment and the only way in which they are influenced by it is that they begin to love books.' The lot includes a handwritten copy of Mrs Bowen's letter to Dahl, also a signed hardback copy of the 1960 Knopf edition of 'Kiss Kiss' (no dust cover), a 1980 first edition 'Tales of The Unexpected' and two other Dahl titles.
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