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Auction: 16043 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 82

Documents
Claude Grahame-White
1903 (15 August) folio A.L.S. on printed paper of the Stansted Estate Office, written on one side to W.H. Humphrey in Chichester, " ... Your continued procrastination is to say the least most irritating & I can but intimate that the manner in which you are treating me will not tend to increase business from this quarter, & must now now request an immediate remittance at once" and is signed "Graham White". This letter relates to the sale of a De Dion and a Vaughan car. Photo

Claude Grahame-White (1879 – 1959) was an English pioneer of aviation, and the first to make a night flight, during the Daily Mail sponsored 1910 London to Manchester air race. Before taking up flying he spent three years at the Estate Office to George Wilder of Stansted, Sussex

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Estimate
£150 to £180