BIB_ID
137587
Accession number
MA 3000.53
Creator
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.
Display Date
1942 Aug. 21.
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, with the special assistance of Governor and Mrs. Elmer L. Andersen, 1977.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 14.9 cm
Notes
Includes postmark and stamp; addressed to Sir Sydney Cockerell at Oakley Lodge, Old Windsor, Berks.
Part of a collection of 134 autograph letters, mostly to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, and 20 photographs and prints; items in the collection are described individually in 154 records (MA 3000.1-154).
Part of a collection of 134 autograph letters, mostly to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, and 20 photographs and prints; items in the collection are described individually in 154 records (MA 3000.1-154).
Summary
Describing Charlotte Shaw's medical problems and the doctors' verdict that her ailment is incurable; noting that their house is "very difficult of access ... except for people with cars and supplementary petrol"; encouraging Cockerell to visit as soon as Charlotte is used to her condition and "normally sociable"; saying that he is "damnably old; but as well as can be expected at 86."
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