Autograph Note Signed ('M. Willson Disher') to the Secretary's Office, Clarendon Press, accompanying a statement of his 'qualifications'.

Author: 
Maurice Willson Disher (1893-1969), British theatre critic and playwright
Autograph Note Signed ('M. Willson Disher') to the Clarendon Press
Publication details: 
16 December 1948. 24 Bradstock Road, Ewell, Surrey.
£56.00
SKU: 9275

4to, 1 p. Trimming at head has resulted in loss to the first line of Disher's address; otherwise text clear and complete. On lightly-aged and creased paper, with jagged trimming at head and in bottom right-hand corner, and three punch holes to margin. Bearing the stamp of the Secretary's Office, Clarendon Press, Oxford. He is returning the 'corrected typescript' and is setting out his qualfications. The bottom section to the letter contain eight lines of these. Disher describes himself as 'contributor to leading journals on the subject of public entertainments in general'. He gives examples of wirk in the fields of circus, musichall and theatre. He adds that he has written 'a number of plays acted in London, as well as many series of radio programmes'.