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The newsletter of the Margery Allingham Society

No.24 - February 2010

Forthcoming Events 2010

Tuesday 23 March

Julia Jones and Francis Wheen will give a presentation on Cheapjack, the book by Philip Allingham about his life on the road in the early 1930s. Margery Allingham edited her brother’s book for publication, which occurred, with great success, in 1934 (see the Diary for 1934 in Bottle Street Gazettes #20 through #23). The venue is the Lakeside Theatre, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester at 7pm. Buses 61, 62, 74/74B, 76 & 78 run between Colchester Station and the University. Allow 45 minutes for the trip. In addition, there is a private viewing of the Margery Allingham archive and a buffet meal at 5pm. Tickets for the talk only are £4, or £12 for all three events and are available from the Essex Book Festival on 01206 573948. See enclosed flyers for details.

Wednesday 24 March

At 7.45pm the following day Edward Marston will give the annual Dorothy L. Sayers Lecture at Witham Library. Tickets from the Essex Book Festival as above.

Saturday 17 April

There will be a day visit to the Regent Street Polytechnic (now the University of Westminster) where Margery and Pip were educated in the early 1920s. The performance of Margery’s plays and monologues will be the first since that time. Alex Warwick, Head of English and Linguistics at the University, is organising the programme for us, with the participation of some of her students. There will be a tour of the Regent Street campus (conducted by the archivist, Elaine Penn), in the morning, followed by lunch at the nearby Café Lido and the performance in the afternoon. It should be a good day – please support it if you can.

Saturday 22 May

The Annual General Meeting and Birthday Lunch. Christopher Fowler, author of the ‘Bryant and May’ series of baroque crime novels, is our guest at the annual Birthday lunch. The AGM will take place in the morning. The cost of the day is likely to be around £30 as usual, with £35 as the upper limit.

Please let Jo know by March 20th if you intend to join us on the 17th April or 22nd May. Further details will be sent only to those who inform us that they will be coming.

Saturday 10 July

The proposed boat trip along the Essex coast has had to be abandoned because the cost has proved prohibitive. In its place we are planning a trip on the Regent’s Canal which, of course, takes in Little Venice, with its associations with Death of a Ghost and Dancers in Mourning. We will make an opportunity to view the plaque to Margery Allingham at Hurlingham House nearby and we will organise a meal together during the day.

Friday 3 – Sunday 5 September

The Ipswich convention is now confirmed for this weekend. Exact details of the programme will be sent later to those who have signed up for the weekend: there will be talks (including one from Mike Ripley, see below), a film, a minibus tour and a mystery competition devised by Margery. There are still places available – please contact Lesley for further information.

Treasurer

If anyone would be willing to consider taking over the role of Treasurer, please let Barry know. Paula Cooze would like to relinquish the job if we can find someone to succeed her.

Margery Allingham Books

Please let us know if you are seeking copies of any of Margery’s books. We have spare copies of many titles and are keen to find good homes for them. If you know of any libraries or other institutions that might take some, please let Barry know. He is happy to send up to five books through the post or hand over larger numbers in central London by appointment or, indeed, to receive visitors at his home in Leytonstone for the purpose of collecting books. We are asking a nominal price of £5 per hardback and £1 per paperback, postage extra.

Biography of Albert Campion

Work is proceeding apace on the biography of Mr Campion. When all the data has been assembled we shall move on to the next stage (whatever that may be: Bottle Street Gazette or a book? Albert deserves the best!)

More Work in French

The first French translation of More Work for the Undertaker is due to appear shortly, with the title Des heures sup’ pour le fossoyeur. If you’d like to know further details, please get in touch.

Mike Ripley

Mike Ripley will be a speaker at the Ipswich convention weekend. He is the distinguished author of the ‘Angel’ series of mystery novels and a firm admirer of Margery Allingham. He is a well-known to members of the Dorothy L Sayers Society, whom he has addressed on occasion. Mike has recently taken an interest in Mr Campion’s Swansong, the unfinished novel left by Youngman Carter at his death. He suggests that it might be published in book form, whether as an existing fragment or with some sort of completion/explanation of the mystery. It would be good if Albert’s final adventure were made available to a wider audience.

Contacts

Chairman	Hon. Secretary	Membership Secretary
Barry Pike	Jo Hesslewood	Lesley Simpson
42 Scarborough Road	28 Parkfield Avenue	Flat 23 Corfton Lodge
Leytonstone	Amersham	Corfton Road
London	Bucks	London
E11 4AL	HP6 6BE	W5 2HU
020 8556 5243	01494 721012	020 8354 0332
	honsec (at) margeryallingham.org.uk	memsec (at) margeryallingham.org.uk

Greetings from all at the Glueworks.

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