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Scope and Contents A printed program from a dinner offered by the London-based Fédération Britannique des Comités de l'Alliance Française marking the 30th anniversary of the crossing of the English Channel by French aviator and inventor Louis Blériot (1872-1936). The event took place on July 25th, 1939, exactly 30 years after Blériot’s historic flight. The program features a sketch of Blériot by artist Charles Dupechez on the cover, and the order of events and dinner menu on the inside. Notes in pencil on the...

Scope and Contents A typescript of a report by British publisher David Farrer, director of Secker and Warburg, regarding a trip to Sweden for a lecture tour by novelist Angus Wilson (1913-1991) promoting his new novel “The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot” (1958). The report is followed by a speech given by Farrer in Stockholm. The contents describe the trip and provide details as to the cooperation between Wilson’s British and Swedish publishers: “...this occasion does seem to me unique. So far as I am aware, it is...

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Three letters sent to Oxford historian Roger Highfield by two different correspondents: two from noted scholar of Anglo-Norman language and literature M. Dominica Legge (1905-1986) dated October 19th and 22nd 1966, and a third signed only “Joan” and undated. Contents of all three are largely personal. Also included is a pamphlet advertising a new Bibliography of Oscar Wilde to be published in 1967, but any connection to the other materials or to Highfield is unknown.

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Two letters from Caroline Kipling to Meta Kemble de Forest (1852-1933), wife of the noted American painter, interior designer, and furniture designer Lockwood de Forest (1850-1932). The contents are personal news, mostly related to travel. Dated 1892 and 1893, in the early years of the Kiplings’ marriage. With accompanying envelopes.

Scope and Contents Materials related to the writing and publication of British Public School War Materials (1927) by C.F. Kernot. A letter from Admiral Earl Jellicoe (1859-1935) containing a handwritten draft of his what would become his foreword for the book, dated October 9, 1927; a note from Field Marshal Lord Methuen (1845-1932) containing a handwritten copy of his own foreword, dated 2 October 1927; letters from Field Marshal Lord Allenby (1861-1936), General John Hamilton, and Lord Robertson, all...

Scope and Contents Materials related to Laline Hohler Barry, a member of the noted British De L’Isle family. The first item is a letter in Barry’s hand to an unknown recipient on letterhead from her home at Long Crendon Manor, and includes details of Christmas travels. The letter is undated but is likely to date from after 1927, when the then-Laline Hohler married her second husband Colonel Stanley Barry as it mentions a “Jeanne” – the name of Barry’s daughter by his first wife. Alongside the letter are two...