Autograph Note Signed ('Geo Gregory') to 'Mr Hawley'.
One page, on paper roughly seven inches by eight wide. Good, on lightly creased paper. Stamped with date. He thanks his correspondent for 'the typed list'. Headed 'Memorandum from | GEORGE GREGORY, Book Merchant, Library Buyer and Exporter, | The Imperial Book Store, | 5 and 5a ARGYLE STREET, BATH. | Out-of-Print and Rare, or Out-of-the-Way Books sought for and reported promptly, with option of purchase. Send me your List of Wants. | Licensed Valuer. Stock well classified in Thirty Rooms. Libraries Purchased. | Bankers: UNION OF LONDON & SMITHS BANK, LTD., BATH. | One of the Largest and Finest Stocks of Second-hand Books in the World. - Catalogues Post Free.' Royal Warrant in top left-hand corner, where Gregory is described as 'Bookseller to HER MAJESTY QUEEN ALEXANDRA.' Gregory's firm was taken over by Bayntun's in 1920. George A. Wheeler contributed a vivid portrait of Gregory to 'Biblionotes' in October 1954. ('He could convince a customer that the book he was showing him was the very one he had been looking for for years and the opportunity of acquiring it would never occur again.')