BIB_ID
456272
Accession number
MA 14715.23
Creator
Wells, Catherine, 1872-1927, sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 page) ; 17.8 x 11.5 cm
Notes
Written on embossed letterhead stationery from: Spade House, Sandgate.
Letter signed "Jane Wells."
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.
Letter signed "Jane Wells."
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
Asking him to "tell H.G. if you can, whether this letter means anything. Is he asking for a signed autograph or something?"; mentioning the H.G. Wells ("Heriberto Jorge") has been expecting to hear from him; writing that they had "a terrific day yesterday in one of Clayson's cabs" and that Cyril (i.e. Cecil) Chesterton was there, adding "we've great hopes of him", and going to write that H.G. Wells "spends much time now talking to everybody of the necessity for a fresh Socialist movement, & seeing if people won't rise to it", adding that "He has written a column against landlords & landowners to the Daily Mail & if they won't print it someone else must."
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