[Dame Ruth Railton, musical director and conductor.] Autograph Card Signed to Philip Dosse of Hansom Books, regarding matters including his mother’s cancer treatment and a book by her husband Cecil Harmsworth King.

See her entry, and her husband’s, in the Oxford DNB. The recipient Philip Dosse was proprietor of Hansom Books, publisher of a stable of seven arts magazines including ‘Books and Bookmen’ and ‘Plays and Players’. Postcard of 14 x 9 cm, with letterhead and no illustration. Monogram signature ‘RK’. In good condition, lightly aged, with slight smudging to a couple of words in one corner. Addressed to ‘Mr Philip Dossé. [sic] / Hansom Books. / Artillery Mansions. / 75, Victoria Street. / LONDON. S.W.1.’ After thanking him for his letter she expresses relief that his mother ‘did so well on the first round [of treatment for cancer]. I prayfor the next one.’ She thanks him for advertising her husband’s ‘next book. Yes. Jonathan Cape again. Yes. Diary 1970-75.’ She ends in the hope that ‘there will be a reason to come to London, or I will never see my friends again, but I love Ireland’.