Envelope
Category
Books
Date
1983
Materials
paper
Collection
Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 3169751.2.2
Summary
The brown paper envelope containing the book 'Letters of John Holles, 1587-1637' by Sir John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare (1564-1637) (record 3169751.2), a full colour picture cut out of the magazine 'Life and Leisure' and a typed letter from 'THE THOROTON SOCIETY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE'. The envelope is blank to the back with extra taped support to each end and has been opened via making a slit down one short edge. In the centre front is a white stick on label with the address typed; 'Wm. Straw, M.A.(Lond)., 7, Blyth Grove, Worksop. Notts.'. In the top right are two postage stamps showing the head of Queen Elizabeth II facing left, the top is on a black background with the price in the bottom left corner which is turned over to obscure it, the bottom one has been torn along the top and is on a dusky pink background with '20p' in the bottom left corner. Over the two stamps is a black circular postal mark, the mark is smudged and hard to read dated '1983'. Handwritten in black pen, by William Jnr., in the top right corner in the opposite elevation to the address; 'THOROTON RECORD SERVICE VOL XXXV for 1982-3 Recd the Nov 1983'.
Provenance
Straw collection bequeathed to The National Trust on the death in 1990 of William Straw.