| Description | Card, noted to be an autograph letter of the Prince of Wales, addressed to Lady Colebrooke ('My dear Alix') at Abington from Marlborough House SW, and signed Albert Edward (July 1898); card of affidavit signed by Georgia Hogarth (sister-in-law of Charles Dickens) with an accompanying note from E P Dutton & Company relating to an easy chair, which had come from Gads Hill, formerly the property of Dickens; Christmas cards from Tagore and others; visiting cards; letter from Carolyn S Cobb; correspondence arranging travel to Norway in Aug 1928 including with Norwegian State Railways, maps and leaflets; a letter from Felix Frankfurter; results of a tennis tournament on the estate in 1936; 'A Broadside: A Collection of New Irish and English Songs 1937'. Published by The Cuala Press, Dublin No 6 May 1937 edited by Dorothy Wellesley and W B Yeats containing lyrics by Frank O'Connor and Gordon Bottomley with illustrations by Maurice McGonical; notice of the 1938 Rattery Garden Fete, including two speeches by Dorothy Elmhirst given at the Rattery and Littlehempston fetes; correspondence with Philip S Jones, Ministry of Information; Devon County Education Committee Women's Advisory Committee records, correspondence and press cuttings (1947-1951); records of parking violations in Torquay; an international driving licence with photograph of Dorothy Elmhirst issued in 1954; a note from Asprey and Co., small number of addresses. |