BIB_ID
456109
Accession number
MA 14715.1
Creator
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946, sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Written on embossed letterhead stationery from: Arnold House, / Sandgate, / Kent.
Forms part of a collection of letters addressed by H.G. Wells to the Popham family, his neighbors at Sandgate, including the writer Florence Popham, her husband Arthur E.H. Popham, and their young daughter Doris Popham.
Forms part of a collection of letters addressed by H.G. Wells to the Popham family, his neighbors at Sandgate, including the writer Florence Popham, her husband Arthur E.H. Popham, and their young daughter Doris Popham.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
A letter apparently accompanying a doll or stuffed animal presented by Wells to Doris as "an old friend of your Father & myself, Sir Orang Haut-ton, a perfect gentleman as you will find and a stranger to Sandgate"; urging her to make him welcome and assuring her that she will find him to be "a most charming person & held firmly by the legs, a more effectual instrument for hitting a worthless brother over the head, it would be difficult to find."
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