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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first class in modern history at Oxford, Sir Gladwyn has a Tudor manor house (Bramfield Hall) in Suffolk, built about 1550 and, as he says, "modernized in 1790." His wife Cynthia is a daughter of the late Sir Saxton Noble. His son Miles is now at Oxford. His daughters, Vanessa (18) and Stella (15), bear the names of the 18th Century ladyloves of Jonathan Swift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Old Etonian | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

Harold E. Perry, 45, former employee of the Massachusetts Archives Division, yesterday pleaded guilty in East Cambridge District Court to the theft of a rare book, Jonathan Swift's "Cadenus and Vanessa," from Houghton Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houghton's Rare Book Thief Gets Sentence | 4/22/1950 | See Source »

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