Literary
HORRABIN
(James Francis, 1884-1962, Left-wing Writer, Cartoonist, Illustrator and M.P.)
Typed Letter Signed to the Willmett family, Hello Twins
thanking them for your kind note and for the cigarettes, which I shall much enjoy this weekend. i am sure Spilliken would shed tears of delight if he knew he had such a kind nephew and niece..., 1 side oblong 8vo., 5 Gardnor Mansions, Hampstead, 3rd June
Item Date: 1938
Background
Horrabin was an English socialist (sometime communist) radical writer and cartoonist. For two years he was Labour Member of Parliament for Peterborough. He attempted to construct a socialist geography and was an associate of David Low and George Orwell.
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