BETJEMAN John - TLS 1975 Autograph Type_Documents and Letters

BETJEMAN John - TLS 1975 Autograph Type_Documents and LettersJohn BETJEMAN (1906 1984) Typed Letter Signed (a rather scrawled "John Betjeman") to "Dear Mr. Mills", regretting that he cannot read his manuscript on mediaeval stained glass, and making suggestions for the printing of the illustrations in his book. 1 page 4to, 29 Radnor Walk, SW3, 20 March 1975. An interesting letter, particularly for Betjeman's kind suggestion as to the best way to reproduce the pictures of stained glass. "I cannot undertake to

A very amusing letter

You might be able to hear if there is anything going especially connected with bombing or trench warfare

Pitt[‘s] principles he believes must be highly approved of by a person of Sir Robert Smith public way of thinking

or a backward student

It may be surprising that the letter

Wellington was loudly cheered by the people

an accomplished orator

Oriel Ross (1931

that the expropriation of the blocks belonging to France will be lifted without delay

he opened the negotiations that would finally lead to the Treaty of Amiens in 1802

and I can not resist trespassing on your goodness

“Sir Robert” is possibly a reference to the Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel