BRACERS Record Detail for 124109

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
1704
Source if not BR
Sotheby
Recipient(s)
Phelps, Elspeth (aka)
Fox Pitt, Elspeth
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1934-1956/
Form of letter
ALS/TLS
Pieces
4 LS
Notes, topics or text

Four letters to BR, listed in Sotheby's catalogue, 18 July 1973. Individual dates are not provided.

The letters, lot 145, were listed as the property of T. Fox-Pitt. "Phelps" is identified as Elspeth's surname in the prior and succeeding lots. In later letters to BR she signed herself Elspeth Fox Pitt.

Subjects include meetings, his son Conrad, and going to Norway and Berlin for the Foreign Office. 5 pages in all.

The addresses are: Mayfair Court, Stratton Street, W.1; Telegraph House, Petersfield; and Penralltgoch, Merioneth. Phelps' letter of 1956/06/28 is at record 120106.

The trips to Norway and Berlin must belong to 1948, and record ? represents that letter.

Permission
Everyone
Record no.
124109
Record created
Jun 23, 2014
Record last modified
Apr 09, 2020
Created/last modified by
rstaple