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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Letter from Cecil Woodham Smith, London, to Thomas Balston, 1957 August 23 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
442811
Accession number
MA 13112.217
Creator
Woodham Smith, Cecil, 1896-1977, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1957 August 23
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 20.5 x 15.3 cm
Notes
Written on printed letterhead stationery from: 48, Cadogan Place, S.W. 1 / Sloane 7986.
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 sending her a copy of his book on the subject of English Staffordshire pottery, and noting that she has been having "a lean time lately" (as a collector of Staffordshire pottery) and has only succeeded in recent months in "finding the Garibaldi you illustrate."