[Dame Rose Macaulay, English novelist.] Autograph Letter Signed ('R. M.') to Maire Gaster ('B. J.'), daughter of Irish nationalist writers Robert Lynd and Sylvia Lynd, written in a playful style regarding a Fascist meeting at the Royal Albert Hall.

2pp., landscape 12mo. On cream paper. In matching envelope addressed to 'Miss M. Lynd | 5, Keats Grove | Hampstead | N.W.3' Good, on lightly-aged paper, in worn envelope docketed by Gaster 'From Rose Macaulay re Fascist meeting in the Albert Hall 1935 [sic]?' The letter is addressed to 'Dear B. J.' ('B. J.', short for 'Baby Junior', being Maire Lynd's family nickname). Macaulay begins: 'Many thanks for this, which I return in case it is wanted. I expect it's libellous to accuse a Hall of "serious political partiality, totally out of keeping with its native traditions of Free Speech." It's probably "a disgraceful libel," like mine. But never mind, I am glad we did. I hope it won't make them withdraw the Hall for the meeting, as I have got tickets & hope to go, if I'm in London. You, no doubt, will be outside. [Maire Gaster was an active member of the Communist Party] So we shall meet at Philippi. I shall bring my knuckle-dusters. And you?' She concludes by asking whether they should 'put up the case for the Albert Hall to the association for Intellectual Freedom, which we have just formed'. In a postscript she writes: 'I don't think you'd better go & demonstrate outside the meeting. Come inside, with me. Much safer.'