She said: 'I had an agreeable birthday in Devon - a picnic, lovely mildly weather on Dartmoor.' She mentioned her 81st birthday in a letter written in September 1971. 'Very cold and frosty outside*Practically everyone had colds including the children, only I escaped.
Upon returning to her main home, Winterbrook House in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, she wrote: 'We have just got back from a nice but hectic and snowy Xmas at Greenway. In early January 1971, she told Miss Callow of the family Christmas she had just enjoyed in Devon. She does mention her work occasionally, with one letter from October 1970 referring to a shortage of copies of her spy novel 'Passenger to Frankfurt'.Ĭhristie is seen posing above as her picture is taken during the day out on Dartmoor with her friends to celebrate her birthdayĬhristie wrote: 'I'd send you Passenger to Frankfurt but I've run out of it - owing to the birthday rush - and Collins are having to bring out a new edition already'. In the letters, Christie talks of the 1971 birthday occasion as well about a snowy Christmas at her Devon property, Greenway, and other snippets from her private life. The letters cover much of Christie's later life when her health started to fail. The 26 autographed letters and cards were written to the author's long-time friend, Elizabeth Callow.Ī descendant of Ms Callow has now decided to put the archive up for sale with Chiswick Auctions of West London and it is expected to fetch £3,500. The photographs show the legendary crime writer celebrating her 81st birthday with her second husband Max Mallowan and unnamed friends on Dartmoor, Devon, in 1971, five years before her death in 1976. A collection of never-before-seen photographs and letters that give an insight into Agatha Christie's private life have emerged 45 years after her death.
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