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VERA BRITTAIN AGREEING TO BE GUEST OF HONOUR AT A DINNER
BRITTAIN
(Vera Mary, 1893-1970, Writer & Feminist)
Typed Letter Signed to Mr Gattey
thanking him for his kind invitation to me to be your guest of Honour at your Annual Dinner... at the Paviours Arms Restaurant. I find that I am free on that evening, and have therefore booked the engagement. Wold you kindly let me know at your convenience how long the speech should be, and whether the dress will be formal or informal?..., with a postscript about proposing the Toast of the Guests... 1 side 8vo., 4 Whitehall Court, Westminster, 13th April
Item Date: 1966
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Background
Mr Gattey is almost certainly the prolific playwright and biographer Charles Neilson Gattey, who was at one point President of the Society of Civil Service Authors, though he may not have been president when this letter was written. Presumably, however, the society mentioned in the letter is in fact this one.
It is remarkable that Brittain readily agrees to speak in front of a society and to be the guest of honour at a society of which she apparently knows nearly nothing, as she asks in the postscript for information about it.
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