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Hart-Davis, Sir Rupert (1907–99), publisher and author, educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, and founder of the publishing house of Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd in 1946. He wrote a life of H. Walpole (1952), and edited several volumes (The Letters of Oscar Wilde, 1962; The Autobiography of Arthur Ransome, 1976). He became widely known for his correspondence with his one-time schoolmaster, George Lyttelton (1863–1962), begun in 1955, and published in six volumes 1978–84, which are full of literary and social gossip and anecdote.

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