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[ Dodie Smith, author of 'The Hundred and One Dalmatians'. ] Autograph Signature 'Dodie Smith' on card.

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Dodie Smith [ Dorothy Gladys Smith ], children's author and playwright, best known for 'The Hundred and One Dalmatians' and 'I Capture the Castle'
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Without place or date.
£22.00

Good firm signature at foot of one side of 13.5 x 8.5cm card. The rest of the page is blank, and the reverse has printed text for a post card. In fair condition, aged and with negligible effect to signature from rectangle of slight browning on card perhaps caused by extended contact with newspaper cutting.

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[ Dodie Smith, author of 'The Hundred and One Dalmatians'. ] Typed Letter Signed ('Dodie Smith') to Dorothy Owston-Booth, declining to contribute to a symposium, and declinging to see her.

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Dodie Smith [ Dorothy Gladys Smith ], children's author and playwright, best known for 'The Hundred and One Dalmatians' and 'I Capture the Castle'
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On letterhead of 129 Rossmore Court, NW1 [ London ]. 15 October 1937.
£80.00

1p., 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged and creased. In envelope addressed by Smith to Owston-Booth at Beckenham in Kent. She thanks her, explaining: 'I very seldom contribute [to] symposiums, and it is not possible for me to do so at present as I am exceedingly busy and am just arranging to go to America'. For the same reason she cannot arrange to see her either.

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Printed notice, issued by the magistrates for the 'Hinkford Hundred, in Essex', enjoining 'all licenced alehouse-keepers within this hundred, to maintain and keep good order and rules'.

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Hinkford Hundred, in Essex; Isaac Hills, alehouse-keeper, at the Swan, Braintree
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At a Petty Sessions held at Bocking White-Hart, on Thursday the 28th Day of June, 1787'. Addressed in manuscript to 'Mr. Isaac Hills, at the Swan, Braintree'.
£85.00

Printed on one side of a piece of laid paper roughly 320 x 190 mm. On light-aged paper, with slight discoloration, and wear to the fold line repaired on the reverse with archival tape. Twenty-one lines of text, clear and entire, with 'Hinkford Hundred, in Essex}' in the left-hand margin.

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