Ephemera - Local Interest - WW1 letters and papers relating ...

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£40 - £60

Ephemera - Local Interest - WW1 letters and papers relating to Private Richard Blackwell of the Notts & Derby, comprising letters to and from the Derbyshire soldier from family, friends and fellow men-in-arms, including letters to Pte. Blackwell as a PoW in Altdamm, Germany, his sister Alice was pleased to note ''I am so pleased to hear you are imprisoning so nicely, and that you are in good hands [...]'' (2, both passed by the German censors and one passed by the British authorities on its way to Germany), Rationing Pass or Duty Ration Order 1918, Welcome Home [card...] From The Sherwood Foresters Prisoners of War Regt. Care Committee, Xmas, 1918, with envelope, Central Registry For Limbless Sailors and Soldiers for Pte. Blackwell's upcoming treatment at Queen Mary's Convalescent Auxiliary Hospital, Roehmapton, January 21st 1919, post-war correspondence from the Ministry of Pensions and Derbyshire Local Committee viz. the claimant's unsuccessful pension increase; late Victorian, WW1 and later mourning cards, mainly pertaining to the Blackwell family of Parwich, near Ashbourne, Derbyshire; others, similar; English Naive School (19th century), a pair of portrait miniatures, of a seated gentleman and lady, he in clerical dress holding a missal, she in lace cap, shawl and dress holding a handkerchief, watercolour and pencil on paper, 15cm x 12cm; 19th century and later b/w portrait photographs, various; b/w Derbyshire and Sheffield postcards; Eccentric Club New Year's Dinner To 1,000 Wounded Soldiers menu and programme, Empire Hall, White City, January 17th 1921; provincial programmes; Employment Agreement Between Allied Newspapers Limited and Charles Pringle Grierson for employ as a journalist, 1st July 1929; later replies to Mr Grierson from The War Office on behalf of Churchill, Downing Street on behalf of the now Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill and Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rab Butler, all on official notepaper (3); Everlasting Silver Leaves From Table Mountain: Souvenir From South Africa; qty