BIB_ID
441002
Accession number
MA 13112.34
Creator
Dawkins, R. M. (Richard MacGillivray), 1871-1955, sender.
Display Date
Oxford, England, 1946 December 28
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 14 x 17.8 cm
Notes
Written from: Exeter College.
In pen at upper right: As 31/12/46.
Forms part of a collection chiefly composed of letters received from friends and associates of the English publisher Thomas Balston (1883-1967); see: MA 13112.
In pen at upper right: As 31/12/46.
Forms part of a collection chiefly composed of letters received from friends and associates of the English publisher Thomas Balston (1883-1967); see: MA 13112.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Thanking him for his hospitality, recounting his trip back to Oxford, mentioning a bookseller who suffered a £25,000 loss in a fire set by "a thief who has recently been giving a lot of trouble at Cambridge ... I suppose he lit the place up to cover his tracks.".
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