BRACERS Record Detail for 131550

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
1781
Source if not BR

Abebooks.com

Recipient(s)
Fox Pitt, Elspeth
Phelps, Elspeth (aka)
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1948/09/21
Form of letter
ALS(DX)
Pieces
1
BR's address code (if sender)
FFE
Notes, topics or text

Record 124109 covers 4 letters (1934-56) sold at a Sotheby's auction in 1973. One is said to concern "going to Norway and Berlin for the Foreign Office", so it was 1948. In 2017 the same letter came up for sale again, this time at Antiquariat Inlibris, Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, with the image attached to this record.

The seller's description, including partial transcription of the unshown verso, is as follows:

"Small 4to. 1½ pp. To the British couturière and feminist Elspeth Fox Pitt, née Phelps (1877-1968), thanking for an invitation for himself and his wife "Peter" (i. e. Patricia, née Spence): "[.] Peter + I both wish we could accept it, but [.] I am going to Norway for the British Council, & then to Berlin for the Foreign Office, & while I am away Peter has to look after our son Conrad. However, after the end of October we shall be in London, at 18 Dorset House [.] Dorset House has a restaurant, so we can always give you a meal without difficulty [.]". - On bluish stationery with printed address."

Transcription

BR TO ELSPETH FOX PITT, 21 SEPT. 1948
BRACERS 131550. ALS(DX). Antiquariat Inlibris
Proofread by K. Blackwell


<letterhead>
Penralltgoch
Llan Ffestiniog
Merioneth
Sep. 21, 1948

Dear Elspeth

Thank you very much for your kind invitation. Peter and I both wish we could accept it, but it does not seem possible in any near future. I am going to Norway for the British Council, and then to Berlin for the Foreign Office, and while I am away Peter has to look after our son Conrad. However, after the end of October we shall be in London, at 

18 Dorset House, Gloucester Place, N.W.1

and if you could come and see us there when you happen to be in London we should <continued on verso, not shown]

Dorset House has a restaurant, so we can always give you a meal without difficulty <....>

Permission
Everyone
Image
Transcription Public Access
Yes
Record no.
131550
Record created
Aug 03, 2017
Record last modified
Oct 03, 2023
Created/last modified by
duncana