Item 4 - Letter from 'Joe' [unidentified] to P. W. Duff

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Add. MS a/519/4

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Letter from 'Joe' [unidentified] to P. W. Duff

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  • 6 Jan. 1958 (Creation)

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On headed notepaper for The Bath Club, 74 St. James's Street, S.W.1.- At Christmas 1956 the writer received prints of the photographs of the Master [Lord Adrian] which Duff 'liked so much', from a 'Polish colleague who had attended our Congress the previous summer'; wrote to him asking for the loan of the negative, but heard nothing until this Christ,as, when 'lo and behold a fresh set of prints arrived'. Encloses six of them.

With envelope postmarked 7 Jan. 1858, Kingston on Thames, Surrey, addressed to Duff at Trinity but forwarded on to Elvet Garth, Durham, and labelled 'Joe | Adrian photos''.

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      Add MS a 519/5-8, four black and white photographs of Lord Adrian, and Add MS a 519/9, a copy out-letter in reply to this, were originally enclosed with this letter.

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