CHRISTIE AGATHA Typed Letter Signed to László Magyar

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"AFTER 75 ONE . . . [IS] STAYING IN THE ANTEROOM OF DEATH" CHRISTIE, AGATHA. Typed Letter Signed, to László Magyar, stating that her last book was called Nemesis, recounting her trip to Yugoslavia, and explaining that her age might make it inappropriate to have many plans for the future. 2 pages, small 8vo, personal stationery, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet; faint paper clip stains at upper edge verso, horizontal fold. Wallingford, 16 March 1972

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". . . I know it is sometimes difficult in some European countries to get the books you want, but I was in Yugoslavia for a holiday four or five years ago and I found people had been very appreciative of my books and had managed to get many of them . . . .
"Since I am 81 years old, one does not have many,--what one might call--plans for the future. Like the rest of life, one accepts the future as it comes to you. After 75 one should perhaps consider oneself as staying in the anteroom of death,--but it can be a very pleasant anteroom, and one has lots of things to think of and remember in the time that remains before taking another step forward. . . ."