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MS 434 06 02

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MS 434 06 02

Title

Anthony Powell archive: Invitation from Victor Cazalet

Level

Item

Administrative / Biographical history

Colonel Victor Cazalet was a British Conservative Party Member of Parliament . He died in a plane crash with General Sikorski in 1943.

Date

[1940-1943?]

Extent & medium

1 card in an envelope

Content description

Anthony Powell's invitation to a party at the Dorchester 'to welcome General Sikorski back from Russia'. The rest of the invitation reads: "Major V. A. Cazalet requests the pleasure of your company on Wednesday, January 21st at the Dorchester [...]". Anthony Powell, as a member of the intelligence corps during WWII, was working with Poland and presumably knew Cazalet and Sikorski as a result.
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