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Thirty-nine Autograph Letters Signed, written from an English girl, Margaret Nourse, to her mother and father [the laryngologist W. J. Chichele Nourse] in 1898, from the Sacré Coeur convent, Conflans, Charenton-le-Pont, France.

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Margaret Leahy, wife of Professor Arthur Herbert Leahy (1857-1928) and daughter of W. J. Chichele Nourse, laryngologist [Sacré Coeur, Conflans, Charenton-le-Pont]
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The thirty-seven letters to her parents date from 1898; all from Sacré Coeur, Conflans, Charenton-le-Pont. The other items from between 1897 and 1941.
£850.00

the daughter of the aurist and laryngologist W. J. Chichele Nourse. In 1913 she married the mathematician Arthur Herbert Leahy (later Professor at the University of Sheffield). All items clear and complete, on lightly-aged paper, apart from one letter, in an envelope marked 'Margarets first letter from school - Jany./98 | dropped into the fire by Will's mistake'. The thirty-nine items to her parents (thirty-seven of them to her mother), all in purple ink, total more than 230 pages of neatly and closely written text. All letters signed 'Margaret Nourse'.

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Seventy-three Autograph Letters Signed from Arthur John Leahy to his mother Margaret Leahy, almost exclusively written as a schoolboy at Bradfield College, Berks, 1928-30, painting a vivid picture of the English public school education of the period.

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[A schoolboy correspondent] Colonel Arthur John Leahy (c.1916-2004), OBE, Commando Signals [Bradfield College, Berks; Seaford House preparatory school, Littlehampton; English public school education]
Publication details: 
All but four of the letters written from Bradfield College, Berkshire, between 1928 and 1930. Of the remaining four, three from Seaford House, Littlehampton, and the last from Crowhurst Hotel, Crowhurst (all four from 1928).
£950.00

The collection is in good condition, on lightly-aged paper, with all texts clear and complete. Totaling 223 pp in 4to (67 letters) and 30 pp in 12mo (6 letters). Twelve of the letters (4to, 30 pp; 12mo, 4 pp) date from 1928; thirty-two (4to, 93 pp; 12mo, 14 pp) from 1929; and twenty-nine (4to, 100 pp; 12mo, 12 pp) from 1930. All are addressed to 'My darling Mummy', with Leahy usually signing his name in full, and occasionally as 'A. J. Leahy', 'John Leahy' or 'John'.

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