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Autograph Note Signed ('John Fothergill') from the archaeologist-turned-innkeeper John Rowland Fothergill to William Freeman. With printed caricature.

Author: 
John Fothergill [John Rowland Fothergill] (1876-1957), Classical archaeologist turned publican, author of 'An Innkeepers Diary'
Publication details: 
27 April 1947; on his letterhead, Market Harborough, Leicestershire.
£65.00

12mo, 1 p. Fair, on aged paper, with brown paper mount along one margin. The letterhead, with design of three swans, is printed in purple. Having seen a notice by Freeman in the Sunday Times, he has 'jotted down (at high speed) the enclosed notes' (not present). Typed at foot of page: 'Presented to my collection by William Freeman Esq.' Laid down on the reverse is the caricature of Fothergill by Bert Thomas, printed in colour, from the dust-jacket of 'John Fothergill's Cookery Book' (1943), with attractive manuscript caption in blue and red ink.

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Autograph Note Signed ('M. E. Kennard') to unnamed male correspondent.

Author: 
Mrs. Edward Kennard' (M. E. Kennard), Edwardian novelist
Publication details: 
Undated. 'The Barn | Mkt Harboro' [Market Harborough]'.
£25.00

One page. On piece of paper four inches by three and a half wide. Good, on lightly creased and aged paper. Docketed in pencil at head. 'Dear Sir | I have pleasure in enclosing my autograph. | Yrs. truly | M. E. Kennard'. Scarce autograph of the woman described as 'Harborough's forgotten novelist' (J. D. Bennett, in 'The Harborough Historian', 2001).

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