An Original Hand Written Signed Letter by John Betjeman. Letter dated 1967. A signed letter by the poet John Betjeman, on development in his favourite place in Britain, Trebetherick in Cornwall. 'Dear Miss Calton, I thank you so very much for your kind letter about Bria House. I can understand the agony you must both have at parting with it. I only hope you will find someone who will continue your own generous tradition and who won't "develop" the hill. I expect the Planning Authority won't allow "development" but one can never be certain. How awful that is about the oil. I've told Mr Philip of the Trebetherick Householders Association of your kind letter to me which is so reassuring. Yours sincerely, John Betjeman' Sir John Betjeman 1906 – 1984 was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster. He was Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death. He was a founding member of the Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture, helping to save St Pancras railway station from demolition. He began his career as a journalist and ended it as one of the most popular British Poets Laureate and a much-loved figure on British television. As a child, John Betjeman (who would later become Poet Laureate) enjoyed family holidays in Trebetherick and he returned there often as an adult. The surrounding area and its churches, railways and landscape (indeed, Cornwall in general) are celebrated in his work.Betjeman's poem Greenaway describes the stretch of coast at Trebetherick between Daymer Bay and Polzeath where he often walked. Another poem, Trebetherick, celebrates the area and also reveals Betjeman's familiarity with, and affection for, this part of the Cornish coast: Later in life, Betjeman bought a house called 'Treen' in Daymer Lane, Trebetherick, where he died on 19 May 1984, aged 77. He is buried half a mile away in at St Enodoc Church, a place he commemorated in his poem Sunday Afternoon Service. Size is 205mm x 125mm. Condition is good. Light folding creases.