Aircraft and a letter

Aircraft and a letter

Left page. Top - side view of a Spitfire taking off. Signed 'To Jill with wishes [….]'. Bottom - air-to air view looking down on a Halifax.
Right page - a letter from Charles W A Scott thanking Jill Nicholls for her congratulatory letter and sending an autograph.

1936-10-28

One b/w photograph, one colour photograph and one typewritten document mounted on two album pages

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[photograph of Spitfire]

For Jill – With all good wishes [signature]

[photograph of Halifax.]

[page break]

[headed notepaper]

CHARLES W. A. SCOTT

GRAND BUILDINGS,
TRAFALGAR SQUARE, W.C.2.

28th October, 1936.

Miss Jill E.K. Nicholls,
“Ashleigh”,
The Heywood,
Diss,
NORFOLK.

Dear Miss Nicholls,

Many thanks for your letter and for you [sic] kind message of congratulations.

I have pleasure in enclosing herewith my autograph. Unfortunately, however, I cannot provide you with Mr. Guthrie's autograph. You could, however, write to him at Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Yours sincerely,

pp Charles W.A. Scott. P.E.

[autograph attached]