The Dennis Wheatley 'Museum' - The Final Years

DW gives away some of his possessions

DW disposes of his coin collection

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DW’s copy of the 1939 Cambridge University Press
limited edition facsimile of the Tyndale translation
of the New Testament (copy 62 of 500)

The slipcase with sticker (left) and the book inside (right)

The sticker indicates that it was to go to DW’s lifelong
friend Cyril (‘Bobby’) Eastaugh after his death

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DW writes to Christina Foyle giving her
a first edition of ‘The Forbidden Territory’

and (below) Christina Foyle writes back
expressing her thanks

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For a transcript of the letter, click here

At some stage in the last years of his life, DW went through various possessions and stuck labels on them indicating to whom they were to be given on his death.

In some cases – as in the case of his Bible above – they reached their final destinations.

In other cases – as with some bottles of wine - other needs intervened, and he consumed them first !

References : Phil Baker p 606

Provenance : Private collection