J. W. GOLDMAN Bibliography of Cricket . London: published privately by the author, 1937. 4to. (occasional light stains), original black buckram gilt. LIMITED TO 125 COPIES, THIS A PRESENTATION COPY TO VICTOR LEVY. The limitation leaf inscribed "in recollection of old days when we played our cricket in the back garden", signed once, signed again with initials and dated May 1937, also with a later inscription by Goldman, "Repossesed at his own cost with my blessing by Desmond Eagar after Victor's death", signed and dated 1954. Faint pencil ticks indicate books in Eagar's collection. Padwick 20. Enclosed is a 3-page letter from Goldman to Eagar, dated Private Room 5, Sunbury Nursing Homes, Sunbury-on-Thames, 24 November 1972, with an attached post-card of the home inscribed with his address and the plangent words, "My only home!!" He tells Eagar the news of his wife, Elizabeth's death, the previous Christmas. He has "been in and out of hospitals and nursing homes since then". Despite the medical problems, he has preserved his sense of humour. However, being ten years younger than himself and never expecting to die first, his wife left everything in her will to her brother, Tom, with disasterous results. "I have issued a writ against him. My own house at Waterville has been burnt ... all my hobbies have gone[:] stamps, cricket, autographs, books, my own personal furniture." He is "not a pauper". A daughter in Sunbury and her husband "have been angels" but "I did not learn enough bad words in the army to describe Tom perhaps you [can] suggest some. Ask Fred Trueman ...." He ends by inviting Eagar to visit him. A short second letter, dated 2 December 1972, encloses a tiny snapshot of himself and his wife, and thanks Eagar for his "kind and understanding letter ... about my darling wife."
J. W. GOLDMAN Bibliography of Cricket . London: published privately by the author, 1937. 4to. (occasional light stains), original black buckram gilt. LIMITED TO 125 COPIES, THIS A PRESENTATION COPY TO VICTOR LEVY. The limitation leaf inscribed "in recollection of old days when we played our cricket in the back garden", signed once, signed again with initials and dated May 1937, also with a later inscription by Goldman, "Repossesed at his own cost with my blessing by Desmond Eagar after Victor's death", signed and dated 1954. Faint pencil ticks indicate books in Eagar's collection. Padwick 20. Enclosed is a 3-page letter from Goldman to Eagar, dated Private Room 5, Sunbury Nursing Homes, Sunbury-on-Thames, 24 November 1972, with an attached post-card of the home inscribed with his address and the plangent words, "My only home!!" He tells Eagar the news of his wife, Elizabeth's death, the previous Christmas. He has "been in and out of hospitals and nursing homes since then". Despite the medical problems, he has preserved his sense of humour. However, being ten years younger than himself and never expecting to die first, his wife left everything in her will to her brother, Tom, with disasterous results. "I have issued a writ against him. My own house at Waterville has been burnt ... all my hobbies have gone[:] stamps, cricket, autographs, books, my own personal furniture." He is "not a pauper". A daughter in Sunbury and her husband "have been angels" but "I did not learn enough bad words in the army to describe Tom perhaps you [can] suggest some. Ask Fred Trueman ...." He ends by inviting Eagar to visit him. A short second letter, dated 2 December 1972, encloses a tiny snapshot of himself and his wife, and thanks Eagar for his "kind and understanding letter ... about my darling wife."
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