Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
31st October, 1st & 2nd November 2025

Elias Henry ‘Patsy’ Hendren. Middlesex & England 1907-1937. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Hendren, dated 18th February 1926 on the official letterhead of the ‘West London Indoor Cricket & Sports Club’ where Hendren was Manager. Hendren is replying to an invitation from ‘Mr. [John] Webber’, Manager of the Sports Department at Harrods, to attend a week of promotional employment. ‘I am writing to confirm your offer to me at Harrods for one week... Hoping I shall be able to do some good business for you’. Signed ‘E. Patsy Hendren’. Horizontal and vertical folds. Some splitting to folds affecting the signature, otherwise in good condition.
This lot is one of a run of four letters from cricketers replying to invitations to promote cricket goods and equipment at Harrods in 1926 and 1927.

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