An interesting scrapbook from the previous proprietors of Th...

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£100 - £200

An interesting scrapbook from the previous proprietors of The White Hart Hotel, Lewes With signatures, messages and drawings, including Edwin A. MORROW (1877-1952) pen sketch of a musketeer on horseback; a scorecard and signatures of the two teams playing in the 1950 cricket match between Sir John Squire's XI and John Wisden & Co Ltd; a pencil comic sketch by the author Hugh CHESTERMAN (1884-1941); a dedication from aviator Sir Alan John Cobham, KBE, AFC (1894-1973) inscribed 'Keep on Flying'; a pen sketch titled Sussex Landscape with Cattle signed by author and stage performer Stacy Aumonier (1877–1928), dated Oct 6th, 1926; further signatories include comedian Max Wild, Violet Helen Attlee, wife of Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, Margaret Vandem Bogarde, mother of Dirk Bogarde former Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson, pianist Margaret Cooper, long-distance walker Bert Couzens; a poem titled 'A Little Rhyme for an Evolutionist' by writer J.B. Morton, noted for authoring a column called "By the Way" under the pen name 'Beachcomber' in the Daily Express from 1924 to 1975; and a pen sketch from 'Old Bill' Bruce Bairnsfather, midsummer, 1931, together with Charles Coburn (1877-1961) actor and director of Old Bill on stage, and his wife, actress Ivah Myrtle Wills (1878-1937).