(Joseph Jefferson, 1883-1955, Detective Novelist and Playwright)
Autograph picture postcard signed to Eileen Cond,
thanking her for the most attractive card and photograph, which followed the calendar, in an earlier photograph you were only a rather small figure, I think, outside your house at Ombersley... in 1937 or 8?, with on the verso Van Gogh's 'The Seine at Asnières', Ditchling, Sussex, postmarked 29th December
Farjeon was an editor for Amalgamated Press, 1910-1920, and, besides his books, contributed to many journals, including 'Punch' as 'Smith Minor'.Eileen Cond was a book collector who sent out her bookplate to her favourite authors, many of whom signed and returned them to her. Among the most notable was Ian Fleming.