BIB_ID
441158
Accession number
MA 13112.61
Creator
Gaselee, S. (Stephen), 1882-1943, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1940 November 14
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 12.7 x 20.3 cm
Notes
Written on printed stationery from: 24, Ashburn Place, / S.W.7.
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
Informing Balston that he has imported some Amontillado Sherry and asking him if he would like to purchase some of it, writing that he has had news of him from Michael Mavrogordato "who was lunching with me in Magdalene on Sunday", and hoping that he is "now entirely rid" his pleurisy; mentioning that he does not "see much of Doorothy nowadays" as "she is with a sister at Chesham Bois", and that his two children are in Cambridge and that he gets to see them fairly often, and noting that it has been "the best partridge year" he has known in 30 years.
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