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

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

Letter from H.G. Wells, London, to Arthur Frederick Popham, 1904 June 10 : autograph manuscript signed with initials.

BIB_ID
456116
Accession number
MA 14715.11
Creator
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946, sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 20.2 x 12.6 cm
Notes
Written on printed letterhead stationery from: 22, Prince of Wales Terrace, / Kensington Palace, London. W.
Forms part of a collection of letters addressed by H.G. Wells to the Popham family, his neighbors at Sandgate, including the writer Florence Radford Popham, her husband Arthur Frederick Popham, and their young daughter Doris Popham.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Sending best wishes for his upcoming operation and asking "Is this your rectal trouble for which you are undergoing an operation? I have more than a platonic sympathy if this is the case, because something precisely parallel seems to have happened to me."