[Selwyn Lloyd [John Selwyn Brooke Selwyn-Lloyd; Lord Selwynd-Lloyd], Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer; Speaker of the House of Commons.] Typed Letter Signed to V. H. Collins, pleading guilty to ‘“usage and abusage” of the English language’.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. In good condition, lightly aged, with light ink mark beside date. Folded for postage. The recipient’s Hampstead Garden Suburb address at foot. He thanks him for his letter ‘about my “usage and abusage” of the English language’. All he can do is ‘plead guilty, and hope that that plea will not prejudice the chance of you being prepared to forgive me!’ The word ‘prepared’ is underlined, and may be the cause of Collins’s complaint.