BIB_ID
441081
Accession number
MA 13112.44
Creator
Fothergill, John, 1876-1957, sender.
Display Date
Thame, England, 1924 June 2
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 20.5 x 12.7 cm
Notes
Written on printed stationery from: New College, / Oxford.
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.
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 a letter and a check; complaining that they have had "four beastly commercial travellers all of whom almost openly express their contempt of us & the new place"; informing him that a young man named "H. Acton" (possibly the writer and Oxford aesthete Harold Acton) came there and was sorry to have missed him, noting that "He wants curious & beautiful things out of 1840 for a small show at Oxford", and asking if Balston could help him.
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