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TRER/17/59
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Postcard from Hubert Waley to R. C. Trevelyan
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- 15 Nov 1942 [postmark] (Creation)
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1 item: coloured postcard with flags and motto 'Victoria Concordia Crescit'.
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Postmarked Devizes; addressed to Trevelyan in the Annie Zung Ward, Westminster Hospital, Horseferry Road, London S.W. - Had been looking forward to visiting again, but decided eventually to go straight home to Wiltshire on Friday; hopes Trevelyan will be released from Hospital soon anyway. The 'shortages of current postcards has produced some curious results. [He] found this on sale in a stationers in Pimlico'.
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- Waley, Arthur David (1889-1966) orientalist (Subject)
- Waley, Hubert David (1892-1968) printmaker (Subject)
- Bai Juyi (772–846) poet and government official (Subject)
- James, Henry (1843-1916), writer (Subject)
- Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888–1965), poet, critic, and publisher (Subject)
- Sickert, Oswald Valentine (1871-1923) writer and salesman (Subject)