ODESSA

For biographical information about Commander Plowden, see the Times obituary quoted at the end of this description. All five items in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Item One: Typed copy of letter from 'Trevor' to 'Mother and Pater'. 2pp., 4to. Headed 'Copy'. With envelope addressed to Miss Martin Wood, c/o Lt. Gen Phelps, Woodbourne Grange, Edgbaston. (As Item Three shows, this copy was made by Plowden's mother for his aunt.) 'I told you we expected to go to the Black Sea from here and we did very shortly afterwards, to Odessa.

Landscape 12mo, on a page of pink paper removed from an autograph album., with one set of rounded corners. In good condition. Signature, written diagonally across the page, reads 'Ania Dorfmann | 25th Novembere [sic] 1929'. Laid down in bottom right-hand corner is a contemporary newspaper photograph of 'MDLLE ANIA DORFMANN'. Laid down on reverse of leaf are newspaper photographs of 'Wolfi Schneiderhan' and another musician.

On rectangle removed from autograph album. In good condition. Reads 'Shura Cherkassky | 1929'.