WOOD Sir Henry - TLS 1929 sending thanks for a book on Toscanini Category_History

WOOD Sir Henry - TLS 1929 sending thanks for a book on Toscanini Category_HistorySir Henry Joseph WOOD (1869 1944) Typed Letter Signed ("Henry J. Wood") to "Dear Mr. Page" thanking him for a book on Toscanini. 1 page 4to, Chorley Wood, 1 October 1929. "Many thanks for kindly sending me round the book on Toscanini; I expect the account of his rehearsals will make one's mouth water. We were pleased to see you on Sunday and hope you will look us up again. . ." Sir Henry Wood may well have been an admirer of his contemporary

“I write a line to thank you warmly for your kind response to my appeal for field glasses

and therefore the sister of the great engineer

21 February 1939: “I have almost finished writing what I believe is an interesting and – as these things go – an important criticism of Moholy-Nagy’s “New Vision”

and the task of designing the menu

Duke of SHREWSBURY (1660-1718)

David Wilkie travelled extensively throughout Europe after the end of the Napoleonic Wars

6¼ x 8¼ cms

pulled down by many cares

who knighted him

with admirable results

I have as much wood as I need for heating

“Lord Mulgrave is going to make a tour in the South