Montgomery of Alamein (Bernard Law, Viscount of)

Autograph letter signed (in the scarcer form 'Monty' ), to ‘My dear Ava’ [Anderson, Viscountess Waverley]. Montgomery sends his correspondent a copy of a speech (no longer present) that he is ‘going to make in Paris on Saturday night next: St. George’s Day’ and remarking that ‘It is an important occasion and I have taken a lot of trouble to produce a good speech’. The Field Marshal also refers to his son, David, who has returned to Cambridge, also reporting that "He did a lot of climbing in the vacation: in the Lake District and in Wales", two pages, two very small staple holes to the upper edge, not affecting the text or signature, 8vo, Isington Mill, Hampshire, 20^th April 1949.