169. Devon.- Green (Francis William, “Frank”, Yorkshire Industrialist, owner of the Treasurer’s House, York, 1861-1954) 2 albums of letters, typescripts, posters, telegrams, newspaper cuttings and other ephemera, relating to Green’s life in retirement at Ashwick Manor Farm, Dulverton, including: diary of ?Green’s time in Burma (Mandalay), 1883; 4 letters from Lady Diana Cooper and 1 from Emanuel Shinwell, Baron Shinwell; South Molland Church, Dulverton Hunt, Exmoor Foxhounds, Quarme Harriers, Devon & Somerset Staghounds, 2 war posters by Fougasse, “Careless Talk Costs Lives”, [1940s]; bill, “PUBLIC NOTICE. Whereas some evil-disposed person... Have Driven a Motor Vehicle Through Two Gates... Reward of £10”, [1940s]; war alert poster, “If the Invader comes... What to do - And how to do it”, [1940]; poster, “Official Scrap Iron Dumps”, Red Cross Agriculture Fund, numerous pp., tipped-in or pasted down, some tipped-in with tape, original half morocco, gilt, rubbed, 4to, 1930s - 50s.
est. £300 – £400
Letters to Green from Lady Diana Cooper during wartime, “Tonight Duff telephones me Hess is in. What a sensation. Does the Treasurer’s House still stand? the memory of my happiest childhood hours remains anyway.”