Box 6

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An inscribed and annotated typescript of Papa Spy: Love, Faith, and Betrayal in Wartime Spain (2009) by Jimmy Burns. Inscribed by Scheetz on the final page. Also included is a curatorial file containing emails dated May 2010 between Burns and several DC-based figures including Scheetz himself regarding promotional engagements in the city.

Scope and Contents 31 letters and postcards written to British author Jean Overton Fuller from author Joan Grant Beatty, philosopher Henry Habberley Price, and Joan Haywood. The contents of the letters pertain largely to Jean’s interest in the occult and especially to issues of parapsychology, extrasensory perception, and reincarnation. The collection also includes an inscribed pamphlet of poems by noted British poet Peter Redgrove dated 1972. A curatorial file from Scheetz containing receipts, customs...

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28 letters sent from British surgeon and tuberculosis specialist Sir Henry Gauvain to the family of Katherine Hughes Hallett, a young girl under his care. Katherine appears to be suffering from polio, and the letters between Gauvain and her parents, Commander Bertram Hughes Hallett and the Hon. Frederica Susan Katherine Somerset, discuss her general care and feeding. Katherine died in 1942.

Scope and Contents Materials related to playwright C. Haddon Chambers, chiefly a bound handwritten manuscript of The Tyranny of Tears. The manuscript is written on several different sizes of paper bound together, and features a number of small illustrations and doodles. The title is tooled in gold on the cover, along with an inscription “To Madame Melba, From her Friend and Compatriot The Author” and dated 1899. Madame Melba was the nickname of famed Australian soprano Nellie Melba, who was known to be...