![]() Nico was the youngest of Sylvia and Arthur Llewelyn Davies’ five sons, and cousin to Daphne du Maurier and her sisters. ![]() In December 2004 Sotheby’s auctioned the Nico Llewelyn Davies archive, which he had given to Andrew Birkin (author of J.M. Much of my work relating to Daphne du Maurier is carried out sitting at her desk. Indeed, I am writing this sat at one of Daphne’s many desks and on an upright wooden chair (which we refer to as ‘the hard chair’), both being lots from the Kilmarth sale. On this occasion many local people bid on items in order to be able to own a memory of Daphne. The first was the Kilmarth sale, shortly after Daphne du Maurier had died, when books, pictures and other items small and large from her home at Kilmarth were auctioned. This is a rare opportunity, I can think of only three previous occasions when something similar has occurred. ![]() ![]() The thought of perhaps being able to bid on and subsequently own something that comes from a du Maurier archive excites people and renews their interest in this still enigmatic and intriguing writer, and rightly so. There is to be an auction of du Maurier related ephemera belonging to the late Maureen Baker-Munton (née Luschwitz) at Rowley’s Auction House, Ely, Cambridgeshire on Saturday 27th April 2019. ![]()
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