Fiction

Press cuttings, including cartoons re women and the retail trade. Includes press cuttings re the theatre. Correspondence re, and copy of the programme for, 'The Queen Came By' a play by RF Dederfield, at the Duke of York's Theatre in London set in a haberdasher's store (with Thora Hird). Christmas card rom the staff training department (using a Gile cartoon on shop assistants); Correspondence with 'Punch' re cartoon, also a entire copy of Punch Jul 1880 with the cartoon re shop assistant's welfare on p 35. Typed extracts and notes from: 'Kipps' by HG Wells; 'The Citizen of the World' 1760 by Oliver Goldsmith; 'La Comedie Humaine' by Balzac; 'Romeo and Juliet' by Shakespeare; Bible: Ezekiel 27 verses 12-27; 'Ten thousand a year' 1841 by Samual Warren.