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Cricket » Cricket Autographs » Cricket Letters » HARRY ALTHAM TO E.W. SWANTON 1960 AIR MAIL CRICKET LETTER

HARRY ALTHAM TO E.W. SWANTON 1960 AIR MAIL CRICKET LETTER

HARRY ALTHAM TO E.W. SWANTON 1960 AIR MAIL CRICKET LETTER
HARRY ALTHAM TO E.W. SWANTON 1960 AIR MAIL CRICKET LETTER

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Original handwritten airmail letter dated January 21st 1960. Sent by Harry Altham to his fellow cricket historian E. W. Swanton, who was in Trinidad following the England tour of the West Indies in 1959-60. In the letter he thanks Swanton for an article written for the Hampshire handbook about Altham. "Thank you, old friend, ...you know, as well as any man, how much cricket has meant in my life, but only I know how much more it has given to me than I can ever possibly have given to it." He also talks a little about the current series in the West Indies. Signed "Harry".

Rough edges where opened with a knife. Good condition. A revealing communication between two great servants of the sport of cricket.

Date
1960

£110.00 (Code: 93331)

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