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Letter from Thomas Balston, London, to George Ivon Woodham Smith, 1962 February 6 : typescript draft with corrections.

BIB_ID
442808
Accession number
MA 13112.218a
Creator
Balston, Thomas, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1962 February 6
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 20.4 x 12.7 cm
Notes
Written on printed letterhead stationery from: Flat 64, / 3, Whitehall Court, / S.W.1..
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
Writing in response to a letter asking Balston if he would be will to sell his Staffordshire figurine of The Redan at Sebastapol; explaining that he has "for nearly forty years ... been trying to make my collection of historical figures as complete as possible with a view to presenting it to some national institution" and is therefore unwilling to "part with any pieces which I should have very little hope of replacing."