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N.M. Gwynne’s diary: Old names worth dropping

Encounters with Peregrine Worsthorne, Joan Reinhardt and the Dowager Duchess of Grafton

17 October 2015

9:00 AM

17 October 2015

9:00 AM

As I get older (and my 74th birthday is now close), I get deeper and deeper into nostalgia. I do not fight this, because nostalgia seems to me to be rational as well as agreeable. Things really aren’t what they once were. ‘But people have always said that,’ is often the response.

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N.M. Gwynne is the author of Gwynne’s Grammar and Gwynne’s Latin.

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