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Autograph Letter Signed, to I.Hodgkin, giving permission for a Punch piece to be set to music, depending on approval by Mr. P.L.Agnew, “a musician of great skill and ability”. 2 pp. 7 x 4 inches, fine, with the original envelope. Bourne End, 18 September 1903. Rudolph Chambers Lehmann (1856 –1929), writer and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1906 to 1910. As a writer he was best known for three decades in which he was a major contributor to Punch as well as founding editor of Granta magazine.
