Gone, all gone
Sir: Your readers of today might be in- terested in a piece of history that almost got away — the signatures of some of your famous readers who subscribed to the
Spectator between 1928--1949.
Carefully mounted in an album, the 380 autographs which have been preserved, include many outstanding personalities in- cluding: Harold Abrahams (1948) H. E. Bates (1930) Max Beerbohm (1931) Arnold Bennett (1928) Sir William Beveridge (1940) John Buchan (1928) Pearl Buck (1932) Sir Stafford Cripps (1933) T.S.Eliot (1932) Havelock Ellis (1935) E. M. Forster (1931) Hugh Gaitskell (1946) John Galsworthy (1928) David Lloyd George (1935) Graham Greene (1940) A. P. Herbert (1935) Aldous Huxley (1928) Julian Huxley (1931) Osbert Lancaster (1949) C. S. Lewis (1944) J. Ramsey MacDonald (1928) Walter de la Mare (1941) His Excellency Jan Masaryk (1939) A. A. Milne (1941) Herbert Morrison (1937) Lord Olivier (1931) Sylvia Pankhurst (1928) Lord Baden Powell (1932) J. B. Priestley (1935) Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1928) Sir John Reith (1930) Paul Robeson (1931) Bertrand Russell (1930) V. Sackville-West (1948) Siegfried Sassoon (1933) J. C. Smuts (1935) Stephen Spender (1946) H. R. Trevor-Roper (1949) Professor G. M. Trevelyan (1934) Hugh Walpole (1928) Mrs Sidney Webb (1931) W. B. Yeats (1928)
Like much of our heritage, these papers were being thrown out as office waste. Fortunately they were preserved by 3 conservation-minded member of the staff and now rest in the Kylin Press archive. But how much continues to be lost?
Gerry Tomlinson
The Kylin Archive, Darbonne House High Street, Waddesdon, Bucks.
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