A Letter - to Dearest Mum and Dad and Gran from Jacqueline d...

A Letter - to Dearest Mum and Dad and Gran from Jacqueline du Pré (Contessa Toiletta) [complete with a piece of ‘clean’ toilet paper] Inscribed by dad "Received March 1970", 5 pages on The Barclay hotel headed paper, "Huge suite, tiny suitcase, bemused porter. Criticises Philadelphia…in comparison London is a paradise." "…the places were not so ugly. Foul city stench, no trees, sky scrapers and rubbish spill everywhere." "Makes London seem a Paradise of cleanliness." "Up the old home country" - * with a piece of toilet paper, "A piece (clean) of lavatory paper from Boston. The genuine article."

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