BIB_ID
193308
Accession number
MA 4595
Creator
Gerhardie, William Alexander, 1895-1977.
Display Date
London, England, 1967 February 15.
Credit line
Purchased, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 10 x 12.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Written from "19 Rossetti House / Hallam Street / London W.1."
Margaret Codling Haley was a teacher and prolific letter-writer whose letters were published in the local Norfolk newspapers and magazines.
Envelope with postage and postmarks to "Mrs. Margaret Haley / 21, Partridge Way / Catton / Norwich / Norfolk / NOR 80N."
Margaret Codling Haley was a teacher and prolific letter-writer whose letters were published in the local Norfolk newspapers and magazines.
Envelope with postage and postmarks to "Mrs. Margaret Haley / 21, Partridge Way / Catton / Norwich / Norfolk / NOR 80N."
Provenance
Purchased on the Acquisitions Fund, 1987.
Summary
Naming great men who have shared his habit of writing in bed, describing the structure of his "bed-rest", and referring to his surname: "Please note I have reverted to an earlier ancestra[l] spelling of my name ... Shakespeare had an e, Dante had an e, Racine had an e, Goethe had an e, and who am I not to have an e? You could quote me in your article, if you like. But don't invent any fanciful nationality for me! Both my parents were English and I am British-born. I enjoyed your article. I hope that when you are in London you will telephone me and come to see me. Your page-companion, Josephine, has been to see me. She is most beautiful, too!;" adding, in a postscript, "Yes, James is a hero."
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