DLA019-0057  Transcription

19th March, 1930.

Dear Mr. Marriott,

I have just returned from abroad and found your letter of the 6th awaiting me, for which many thanks.^[1]

I am very interested in your ideas regarding my work, and should be very pleased to talk over this matter with you personally. Would you give me the pleasure of taking tea with me here next Sunday, the 23rd, at 5 o’clock, or on Monday at 3.30?

Looking forward to hearing from you. | Yours truly,

A.E. Marriott, Esq.,

37, Golden Square,

W.1.

Editorial Note:

Albert E. Marriott, one of a number of pseudonyms of Netley Lucas (c. 1903-1940), an infamous fraudster and self-proclaimed “aristocrat of crooks” who had, in 1925, authored the best-selling The Autobiography of a Crook.

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