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Autograph Letter Signed ‘Anstey Guthrie’, addressed ‘Dear Madam’asking for a detailed reference for a housekeeper. A good one page example, 6 x 4 inches. 16 Duke Street Mansions, Grosvenor Square, 27 April 1914. Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856-1934), humorous writer as F.Anstey, author of Vice Versa. “…let me know whether you consider her a good cook & generally suitable for a place as housekeeper in a flat, the work in which would, except for assistance from a charwoman twice a week, be entirely done by her.”