Stark (Dame Freya Madeline, writer and traveller, ?1893-1993) 14 Autograph Letters signed to Richard and Lavender Goddard Wilson (most to Lavender), 2 Autograph Postcards signed & 6 Christmas cards signed, various addresses including the British Embassy in Tehran, Paris, British Consulate Smyrna, Asolo - Italy, 28pp. (4 envelopes) & 7 sides, 30th April 1951 - 6th January 1981, on a variety of personal and travel related subjects, including: the problems she has with Persians, "I take it that the Persian example is doing a great deal of harm? Anyway I am convinced that this sort of infiltrating is much better done by women (but alas only by exceptional ones, & that is why Lavender is the deciding factor), mention of her husband Stewart Perowne and the breakdown of their marriage, falling off a bus in Piccadilly and tearing a leg muscle, numerous references to travelling, her last letter saying how old and tired she feels at 88, and finishing with "I leave for Nepal next month", folds; and a typescript of a poem, Apollonia. To Freya, 1951, v.s., v.d. (c. 28 pieces).

⁂ Lavender Goddard-Wilson (b. 1916), was the wife of the Residents secretary in Benghazi when she became friends with Freya Stark. She married Richard G. Wilson, a civil servant in the Colonial Office in 1944. She was the author of Struggle for the Ottoman Empire 1717-1740, 1966, and Clash of Generations, 1973, about the Hapsburgs.