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- 10 Feb. 1931 (Creation)
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1 sheet, 1 envelope, 2 cuttings
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(With cuttings from The Times, 9 and 10 Feb., containing articles headed ‘Empire Copper | The New Mines of Rhodesia | I.—A Task for the Geologist’ and ‘Empire Copper | II.—Recruits to Rhodesia | A Mixed Mining Community’, and an envelope.)
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Trinity College | Cambridge
10 Feb. 1931
My dear Gerald,
These articles may interest you if you have not seen them. I hope you are not one of the people who have been caused much distress by the closing down of the Burana M’Kubwa mine.
Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.
[Direction on envelope:] Gerald Jackson Esq. | Imperial College Hostel | Prince Consort Road | S. W. 7
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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 10.15 p.m. on 10 February.