HOLLOWAY PRISON IN 1897
Autograph Letter Signed by the Medical Officer, James Scott,
also signed by J. M. Pitcairn, Deputy Medical Officer to Mr Adam Hay “on the occasion of your retiring into private life, after having spent nearly half a century in the service of the Queen, we, who have been associated with you in the Medical Department of Holloway Prison, feel that we cannot let you go from among us without an expression of our good wishes. We hope you will be spared yet for many years, to enjoy your well-earned rest after so many years of faithful service. We ask you to accept from us a few volumes, as a remembrance. The subject of the books is the Indian Mutiny, one of the stirring events in which you took an active part. We hope you will find interest in perusing them, and that they will recall, in a pleasant manner, an important part of your military service...”, 1 side folio, Parkhurst Road, Holloway, 1st August
Item Date:
1897
Stock No:
43034
£125
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HOOVER
(John Edgar, 1895-1972, Director FBI 1924-1972)
Printed “Autograph” slip signed
with “Director Federal Bureau of Investigatoin”, together with part of the envelope that it was sent in addressed to Dennis Rebbeck, 5½” x 2½”, postmarked Washington, 21st June
Item Date:
1948
Stock No:
43021
£125
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HOUGH
(Charlotte, 1924-2008, Author of over 30 Illustrated Children’s Books)
Fine long Typed Letter Signed in her very emphatic style, to her friend Josephine PULLEIN-THOMPSON
(1924-2014, Writer known for her Pony Books, Leading member of International PEN) thanking her for her “LOVELY letters! V sorry about your house; one wants an ORDERED return to one’s own home, but think how lovely it’s just about to be!! And the curtain rail working! I’ve been battling with my books and going QUITE MAD carrying my step-ladder first to the east and then to the west with an M or a sudden Y which mean that the WHOLE LOT have to be moved yet again. But that is nothing! Though I still insist... with that awful desk in the middle of it all covered in unopened brown envelopes and requests for me to look up papers... it’s pretty bad! On the bright side the cottage path is no more!!!!! Thanks to you!!!! and it all looks lovely!!!! I’m So sorry about the virus, what a rotten thing to happen to YOU. It seems a tiresome dragging sort of thing that’s going about. Have just returned from Hay-on-Wye with Janet, who had a terrible time... rather a bad hotel where she kicked her heels while I wrestled with the telephone finding the only starter-motor in Worcester, and a garage with a ramp, and a man prepared to do it on Saturday so long as poor BRYONY (who had the car) could get them all together by 10.30am! She did it by dumping her 2 children on the lady next door in return for LOOKING AFTER HER TWO CHILDREN ALL DAY FOR THE NEXT THREE WEEKS! We got to HoW just in time to hear a young man reading his novel about grinding corpses so hard into the mud that they became indistinguishable from it... Janet fantastic in all this! As we drew up outside her house on the second for Noel Coward she leapt out of the car, key at the ready, took no notice of Mike chasing her cat.. with fearful shrieks, sat me down in front of TV with That Drink and dashed over to shop opposite for frozen fish and chips!...”, 2 sides folio, 1a Ivor Street, London, 6th June
Item Date:
1991
Stock No:
43002
£75
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HULBERT
(Jack, 1892-1975, British Musical Comedy star)
Vintage postcard photo reproduced by S. Georges, signed & inscribed
“best wishes”, showing him head and shoulders in profile, 5½” x 3½”, no place, no date,
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
43082
£50
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ISAACS
(George Alfred, 1883-1979, Politician and Trade Unionist who served in Clement Attlee’s Government)
Fine Signature on card,
with a newspaper photo, 5½” x 3½”, no place, postmarked
Item Date:
1948
Stock No:
43022
£25
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