Notebook listing Simmons postcards and Wood pictures

The notebook contains handwritten lists of H E S Simmons postcards, photos from the Ratcliffe collection and drawings by Karl S Wood. These are presumably lists of the material collected by T J Mason. The handwritten list of Simmons cards contains gaps, but a complete typescript list of the watermill cards, perhaps by Simmons himself, has been pasted over the handwritten list.
T J Mason's collection passed to Martin Mason, and was then sold; letter 46 in FWGC/1106833 from Stephen Buckland to Frank Gregory describes the sale of the Martin Mason collection, referring to a large amount of Simmons postcards, presumably those listed in this book. Frank Gregory's collection when catalogued at the Mills Archive was found to contain many Simmons postcards, now in the Simmons Collection (HESS). It also contained the Karl Wood drawings listed in this book, now catalogued as the Karl Wood Collection (WOOD); notes in T J Mason's hand were found with them.

Thomas James Mason was born in Lambeth, Surrey to Thomas James Mason, wheelwright [1], and Mary Jane Dugan Newlyn [2]. On the 1911 England Census he is noted as a Letter Sorter [3]. He married Eugenie Maud L Whiting in Camberwell, London in 1906 [4] and had 2 children; Leslie Thomas, born 1907 [5], and Ronald Edgar, born 1912 [6].
He was a friend of Syd Simmons who gave him copies of his windmill and watermill postcards.TJ Mason constructed a list of Syd’s postcards, using the latter’s numbering system, in a notebook. He also had original black and white ink drawings by Karl Salsbury Wood listed in the same notebook. The notebook [SHOR-1118066], postcards and Karl Wood drawings were given to his nephew, Martin Thomas Mason.
He died at Farnborough Hospital, Kent on 16 April 1961 [7].

This material may be consulted free of charge at the Mills Archive; please email [visitors@millsarchive.org](mailto:visitors@millsarchive.org?subject=Request%20to%20consult%20SHOR-1118066) to arrange an appointment.

Thomas James Mason was born in Lambeth, Surrey to Thomas James Mason, wheelwright [1], and Mary Jane Dugan Newlyn [2]. On the 1911 England Census he is noted as a Letter Sorter [3]. He married Eugenie Maud L Whiting in Camberwell, London in 1906 [4] and had 2 children; Leslie Thomas, born 1907 [5], and Ronald Edgar, born 1912 [6].
He was a friend of Syd Simmons who gave him copies of his windmill and watermill postcards.TJ Mason constructed a list of Syd’s postcards, using the latter’s numbering system, in a notebook. He also had original black and white ink drawings by Karl Salsbury Wood listed in the same notebook. The notebook [SHOR-1118066], postcards and Karl Wood drawings were given to his nephew, Martin Thomas Mason.
He died at Farnborough Hospital, Kent on 16 April 1961 [7].

The book has been identified as T J Mason's by the handwriting - see item 1118068.

Published