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Harry's Letters - A Journey Through the 1920s
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(Chronological list of letters, plus oddities)

 

(An alphabetical list of cities is also available)

 
Letter 1: Envelope and folded writing paper marked RMS Tahiti; 2 pages; postmarked Wellington NZ 3pm Aug 18
Letter 2: RMS Tahiti envelope (printed on back); 6 pages on two folded sheets (2 blank); postmarked 'marine post' RMS Tahiti. 2? Aug 1924
Letter 3: RMS Tahiti; 6 RMS Tahiti stationery; 3 Sep 24

Letter 4 - From Hotel Whitcomb

Letter 4: San Francisco Hotel Whitcomb;
5 page hotel stationery;
included blank sheet highlighting room location etc;
postmarked '10 Sp 24' Marine Post Office, NZ RMS Tahiti;
addressed to Mr C A Gracie, The Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Ltd, Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia
Postcard: San Francisco 'Cliff House'; custom made postcard; presumed to have been included with previous letter
10 Sep 1924 Cliff House
Letter 6: Rochester; 7 page letter; Included Grand Canyon postcards postmarked Sep 26 ?pm Rochester Minn
24? Sep 1924 Prohibition
Letter 7: Rochester Hotel Campbell; 4 pages hotel stationery; postmarked Oct 3 6.30am Rochester Minn
Letter 8: Rochester Hotel Campbell; 3 page letter; postmarked Chicago Oct ?18 6.30pm
Letter 9: New York Hotel Martinique; 6 pages hotel stationery; 26 Oct 24
Letter 10: First 4 pages on single folded White Star Line note paper; continued on 'Homeric' postcard; and thence continued further on 9th November (see next letter); postmarked London W1 Nov 10th 1924 7.15pm
Letter 11: Regent Palace Hotel; 2 pages hotel stationery; postmarked London W1 Nov 10th 1924 7.15pm
Letter 12: 3 page letter (written in Australia House); postmarked London WC ... Nov 27 1924
Letter 13: Regent Palace Hotel; 7 page letter; postmarked London W1 Dec 3
Letter 14: Folkestone; 2 page letter written on "The Aquagraph!"; sent from France with next letter; 11 Dec 24
Letter 15: Paris Hotel St Pétersbourg; 4 pages hotel stationery 12 Dec 1924
Letter 16: Paris Hotel St Petersbourg; 7 pages hotel stationery; envelope marked with name of hotel; postmarked 15th ?Gluck
Letter 17: Helston, Cornwall; 2 pages; small envelope with no postmark
23 Dec 1924 Cornwall
Editorial and photos:
Jan 1925 The trip home
Letter 19: SS Ormonde 3 page letter written on "Orient Line of Royal Mail Steamers" paper; postmarked 3rd Feb 1925 with British Empire Exhibition postmark
Other pages that may be of interest (if you did not come across them from the above letters). They do not necessarily warrant special mention, I simply decided to leave this level of detail out of the main letters.
Harry's Ships: RMS Tahiti
RMS Homeric (Columbus)
SS Ormonde
Credits etc: How the letters made it to the web
Andrew Byrne's introduction
Premier's letter of introduction
How to use: How to get the best from this site
How to resize images in Firefox
How to resize images in Internet Explorer
Footnotes: Miscellaneous sites dedicated to 1920s
White City (and other amusement parks of the 1920s)
Hickson's Mission
The Almighty Dollar
Ziegfeld Follies in Chicago
Tong Riots
Sorting rooms at London GPO
Pup Raymond
Paris / French General Interest

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Last updated : 16 Jan 2006
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