DRAPER
(Ruth, 1889-1956, American Diseuse & Monologuist)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Jackson,
saying that she has "never seemed to find time again to come and see the silhouettes. Helen Holmes Spicer told me they were lovely ... I feel sure that none of them are of my family ... My father came from Brattleboro' Vermont, ... I don't recognise any of the names in the list, tho' I do not know much of the branches of the family. I suppose we were connected & came from one English family ... there may have been many immigrants ...", 2 sides 8vo., Dark Harbour, Maine, 4th September no year.
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0
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6071
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DRAPER
(Ruth, 1889-1956, American Diseuse & Monologist)
Signature
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7334
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TOM DRIBERG COMPLAINING BITTERLY ABOUT THE RAILWAYS
DRIBERG
(Thomas Edward Neil, Baron Bradwell, 1905-1976, Jouornalist, Politician, Anglican Churchman and possibly Soviet Spy)
Very Long Typed Letter signed with autograph additions to Sir Henry JOHNSON
(1906-1988, Chairman of British Rail) starting that “Air travel is so intolerable, particularly in the tourist season, that I have in the past come home from France, when possible, by rain and boat, usually by the night ferry from Paris. I doubt if I will continue to do this after travelling from Paris to London on the night of 5/6 September. The trains have become increasingly shabby in recent years, but one can put up with that. The service has, of course, deteriorated, but no more than service in comparable contexts elsewhere, and the breakfast-car staff on the English side are, with one exception, extremely friendly and helpful. (I need not specify the exception - he was well-meaningly guilty only of a mistimed joke.). The charge of 75p for breakfast was exorbitant... I should, however, be grateful if you will let me have a list of the increases in meal charges on trains in the last 10 years... and some indication of the extent to which British Rail took advantage of decimalisation to ‘round up’. What was really, and perhaps permanently off-putting was the absolutely disgraceful arrangement, or rather non-arrangement, for the arrival of passengers at Victoria. The French conductor of my Wagon-Lit kindly procured a porter... I carried my own bags out of the hall, assuming that there would be a line of taxis... On the contrary, in the narrow congested street there were no taxis at all... The train was crowded not so much with British passengers, who are by now inured to the general discomfort of life in this country and of our public services, but with many American and French passengers, on whom the most disagreeable impression was created. Several questions arise... Why can the customs and passport formalities not be done on the train during the night... If it is for some valid bureaucratic reason necessary to have these formalities conducted in the dreary hall at the side of Victoria Station, why cannot arrangements be made with the traffic authorities to. have the narrow thoroughfare at that side... reserved for a taxi rank...”, 3 sides A4, House of Commons headed paper, 10th September
Item Date:
1971
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43795
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DRINKWATER
(John, 1882-1937, Playwright, Poet & Actor)
Fine signature
on card with the word ‘Aequi’ and the date, 3½” x 2½”, no place, February
Item Date:
1925
Stock No:
41983
£25
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DRINKWATER
(John, 1882-1937, Playwright, Poet & Actor)
Fine postcard photo signed
showing him half length smoking a pipe, 5½” x 3½”, no place, no date
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0
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43382
£100
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