Record

LevelItem
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)LAdd/6542
TitleLetter to Sewell Stokes from Arthur S. Coward
Extent1 item
Date1929
DescriptionManuscript letter dated 18 January 1929 addressed to Sewell Stokes, 48 Springfield Road, St John's Wood. Written by Arthur S. Coward [Noël Coward's father], 111 Ebury Street. Arthur Coward thanks Stokes for his letter respecting a special article about Noël's early days, but he cannot well do this without first having his advice. He is writing to his son by this mail and will no doubt hear from him by return mail.

Letter written on the verge of Noël Coward's success of the revue 'Bitter Sweet'.

Also see LAdd/6542
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Administrative HistoryNoël Coward's family moved through the suburbs of south London, before finally setting in Ebury Street, where his mother Violet acquired a boarding-house on the fringes of Belgravia.

The recipient of these letters, Sewell Stokes, was an author and broadcaster who also worked as a probation officer and prison visitor, writing several works on the British penal system. In collaboration with his brother, Stokes also produced a controversial and successful play (later film) about Oscar Wilde, with his friend Robert Morley in the lead role.
AcquisitionPurchased December 2024

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