Archibald Percival Wavell (1883-1950), senior officer in the British Army during both World Wars, Commander in Chief, then Viceroy in India between 1941 and 1947.
John Saumarez Smith, working at Heywood Hill bookshop, found an unedited copy of the original edition of 'Notes and Ideas' and was keen to reprint it. The Wavell family refused, he produced this informal edition, photocopied from the original, to be issued in ‘a handful of facsimile copies’ for private circulation.
'The darkest place is under the lamp. (Eastern proverb)'
