Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph postal card signed with initials : Ayot St. Lawrence, Welwyn, to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, 1942 Aug. 21.

BIB_ID
137587
Accession number
MA 3000.53
Creator
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.
Display Date
1942 Aug. 21.
Credit line
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).
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."