A remarkable collection of correspondence and photographs pertaining to the Queen of Crime Fiction, Agatha Christie.
The collection includes:
3 x autograph letters signed "Agatha Christie"
9 x autograph letters signed "Agatha" or "Agatha Mallowan". Various dates between the years 1931(?) to 1968.
10 x typed letters signed in response to readers questions and requests for autographs etc. Various dates between the years 1953 to 1974
1 x Photograph Portrait of the author dated Dec 1970 and marked Universal Pictorial Press photo - not signed.
5 x Autograph letters addressed to Agatha Christie - mostly on personal matters.
The collection also has a significant number of letters from Christie's secretary, Margaret N.T. Fisher. Dated between 1936 and 1940, there are nine autograph letters, concerned chiefly with the maintenance of Christie's property in Cresswell Place, London and also the acquisition of her cottage in Devon. A further two typed letters signed are addressed to the tenants of the London property.
A further autograph letter is included in the archive, written and signed by actress Margaret Rutherford who portrayed Miss Marple in a series of films and to whom the author dedicated her novel, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side.
Finally, an astonishing group of 21 photographs (various sizes, some multiples) with autograph signatures of actors involved in the making of film and television adaptations of Christie's novels. 6 of these are numbered stills from the sets of Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile. The list of actors includes Margaret Rutherford (3), Joan Hickson, Angela Lansbury, Peter Ustinov (4), David Suchet, Albert Finney and Sean Connery.
An impressive archive which would surely add significance to the finest of Agatha Christie collections.
