1 Autograph Card Signed; 1 Typed Letter Signed. Both to 'Mr Wilson'.

On 1 June 1935 Shelford bowled the first jack at the opening of West Hoathly Bowls Club. The card, dimensions roughly 4 inches by 5 inches, is 2 pages. The letter, 2 pages, 4to. Both somewhat grubby but in good condition. The card thanks Wilson for sending a copy of Francis Hackett's 'Henry VIII'. 'I dipped into it in the train this morning & it so <?> me that I had to skim my newspaper'. The letter begins with some Christmas chitchat, before discussing a lecture given by Shelford, a copy of which he encloses (not present). 'Let me repeat it has no literary pretensions, being indeed a hurried, and perhaps panicky, production, as the result of your caution against prolixity when faced by an unseen audience and a magic lantern.' He ends by requesting Wilson's help in acquiring a number of books which will asist him in writing his 'contemplated lecture on Malay pirates'.