[Marchioness of Londonderry [Edith Helen Vane-Tempest-Stewart, née Chaplin], society hostess and charity worker.] Autograph Letter Signed music hall entertainer George Robey, asking him to participate in a Women’s Legion ‘Jazz Jumble Sale’.

See her entry and his in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 8vo. In fair condition, on aged and lightly creased paper. Folded for postage. Addressed to ‘Dear Mr Robey’ and signed ‘E Londonderry.’ Begins: ‘We are holding a gigantic Jumble Sale on the 10th. of July – to help the Legion funds – We are calling it the Jazz Jumble Sale as there is a the dansant as well – A kind of fair we intend to make it & a member of the Royal family is going to open it in the afternoon. Will you be very kind and come and auction some of the things for us at four oclock. The day of the week is a Thursday.’ She has ‘by no means’ abandoned her hope that he will ‘give a concert for us someday’, perhaps in the autumn, she feels that he is ‘too busy now, but you once said you would help us by taking part in a show which we arranged’, and she thinks ‘this proposal […] will make the whole difference to our Sale if you can come – and I need not say how very grateful we should be’.A short report in the ‘Sketch’, 16 July 1919, does not mention Roby: ‘Still Brave. / Women showed a high courage during the war. Lady Londonderry’s Jazz Jumble Sale at the Caxton Hall last week proves that they can still show it when occasion arises. Lady Titchfield has scarcely the bearing of an Amazon, but the way she held her stall against an attack in force by heated, plush-clad ladies from Whitechapel way surprised her friends almost more than the fact that most of the stalls were “sold out” before Princess Helena Victoria had completed the formal opening ceremony.’