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RED SHEEP.
The most important letter Jessica Mitford ever wrote was a forgery, addressed to herself ("Darling Decca") at the age of nineteen, on February 3, 1937. Pretending to be a girlfriend travelling on the Continent, the future muckraker issued an effervescent pseudo-invitation to come across the Channel: "We have taken a house in Dieppe--that is, Auntie has taken it! We mean to make it the centre of a sort of motor tour to all the amusing places round. We are going there from Austria on Wednesday, and we should so love you to join us next weekend sometime."
Mitford's real destination was war-torn Spain, which she intended to reach after eloping with her second cousin ...
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