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[T. Mack Smith, British military internee in Vichy France.] Autograph Letter Signed ('South') to 'Monty', describing his escape, 'in real cinema fashion', from 'the Gerries', on the eve of the Battle of Dunkirk.

Author: 
Thomas South Mack, Royal Army Service Corps [The Battle of Dunkirk, 1940; Vichy France]
Publication details: 
'From Mr MACK. T.S. | NO t/146103. | Internee [sic] anglais, | Camp Militaire, | AGDE, HERAULT, France. | 20.IX.1940 [i.e. 20 September 1940]'.
£90.00

2pp., 4to. In good condition, on lightly aged and creased paper. He begins by thanking him for his letter 'from Cambridge Hospital' and sympathising with his illness. 'I hoped to be able to come & see you before this but I am afraid now I am here for the duration. This is a pleasant spot, 1/2 a KM from a town of 5,000 inhabitants & 4 KM from the Mediterranean. I have my bike, & am fed & clothed & am allowed anywhere in the district of Agde at any hour.

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Autograph Notebook by Frederick Leman Whelen, containing biographical matter, some on the Stage Society. Including lists of individuals (some Jewish) with whom Whelen was interned at Fort de Romainville and Drancy, Paris, during the Second World War.

Author: 
Frederick Leman Whelen (1867-1955), Fabian socialist author and founder of the Stage Society [Drancy Internment Camp; Nazi Germany; holocaust; concentration camps]
Publication details: 
1939 to circa 1941.
£400.00
F.L. Whelen, Fabian author, founder of Stage Society, Notebook

Small 4to, 140 pp. Paginated by Whelen. Notebook of good laid paper, in boards covered in patterned paper, with the word 'BIOGRAPHICAL' in faded red manuscript at head of front cover. Text neatly written and clear and complete. Good: internally sound and tight on lightly-aged paper; in worn and chipped boards. The flyleaf is dated 1939, with Whelen's addresses given as the Royal Societies Club, St James's St, and 5 Place de la Taconnerie, Geneva.

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La Cure de Vichy dans les Intoxications par l'Opium et ses Dérivés.

Author: 
F. Jardet and G. Nivière, Médicins á Vichy [Opium; Morphine]
Publication details: 
Vichy: Imprimerie C. Bougarel, Ruye Sornin, 1897.
£38.00

8vo, 6 pp. Stitched. In light-green printed wraps. Text clear and complete. Fair, on chipping high-acidity paper. Ownership inscription at head of front wrap. Described in footnote on first page as 'Communication au Congrès International d'Hydrologie (IVe session - Clermont-Ferrand 1896).'

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