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![[JAMES B. A. 'JIMMY']: (1915-2008) British Squadron Leader with the Royal Air Force. A Prisoner of War from 1940-45, James m](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/57e05615-65d4-430a-bbbd-aa3000fe35d7/49f2f683-49f7-4afe-97a5-aa31016559f2/468x382.jpg)
Lot 311
[JAMES B. A. 'JIMMY']: (1915-2008) British Squadron Leader with the Royal Air Force. A Prisoner of War from 1940-45, James made numerous efforts to escape from various POW and Concentration Camps, most famously from Stalag Luft III in March 1944 as part of the 'Great Escape'. JAMES HERBERT MARK (1873-1933) English Businessman, manager of a tea plantation in India. Father of Jimmy James. A collection of thirty five A.Ls.S., Daddy, eighty nine pages, mainly 4to, most written from Shamshernagar, South Sylhet, India, June 1931 - April 1933, all to his son, Jimmy James ('My dear Bertram') and written in the period when Jimmy James returned to England following the death of his mother up to Herbert James also returning, shortly before his own death. The largely social letters from father to son discuss family and business matters, as well as his social activities, participating in games of polo, tennis and bridge etc., in part, 'I think that you have made an excellent choice of a career in the Mercantile Marine & sincerely hope that you will stick to your first choice & take it up seriously. If you have to work hard to get into it, put your back into it & determine to pass any necessary exam. I was never in favour of you going into the church & think that Mummy only favoured it from sentimental reasons…..I don't want you to stop uselessly at school too long. It is only a waste of money. Excuse me for talking so frankly to you, but you are old enough to understand old boy, & I hope you will do your best to help me. Times in tea are very hard, money is getting scarcer & scarcer' (29th June 1931), 'It has been raining all the afternoon & I have just got to the office after having given all the pluckers leave. We have any quantity of leaf on the bushes & can't get it off owing to the rain, which is very disappointing' (11th August 1931), 'I chaffed Betty [his daughter, Jimmy's sister] about her shyness. What is the good of being shy. You both are as good as anyone else, so hold your heads up & look about you…..PS The most important part of my letter is at the end. You will be interested to hear that I am engaged to be married to Mummy's greatest friend Miss May Wood. When we are going to be married I cannot say but I know that you two will love her for she is very very jolly…..' (19th November 1931), 'Your letter congratulating me on my engagement old Boy is very much appreciated, & I am very glad to know that both you & Betty are pleased about it. I think that it will be a great thing for you & Betty having a Mother's care once more' (14th January 1932), 'I am not quite certain what your job in a tea broker's office would be, but I consider it a very good opening & advise you to put your best foot foremost. I never had such a good start, so hope that you will make the best of a real good opportunity……You may be said to have your foot on a very good bottom rung of the ladder of life. It is now up to you to make good by your own efforts' (18th February 1932), 'I think your Captain must be a bit of a brute to act as he did. Nasty tempered fellow apparently? You say that he hacked your shins. About your writing, it is very legible indeed but it might be improved by being a little bigger. I've told you about this before…..' (26th February 1932), 'I took Mr. C. for a long jungle walk……& he was attacked with malaria in the afternoon his temperature rising to 104â—¦. He is going home shortly & wants a thorough over hauling at the Tropical School of Medicine……Mr. Elder now has a wireless set on which he can get Paris & Moscow. The music pieces are more or less OK but it is impossible to hear when people are talking. Atmospherics I understand are the trouble' (12th March 1932), 'Sir Stanley Jackson, the famous cricketer, was Governor of Bengal - I should say is - but he is on the point of retiring' (26th March 1932), 'I was very amused to see that the players were done down by Duleepsinhji and Pataudi in the Gentlemen & Players match. Hardly any one else but those two did anything' (17th July 1932), 'I have had to…..give evidence that I gave information about a murder that was committed in Shamshernagar. I know nothing about the murder but the mere fact of my having given the information has dragged me into the case' (3rd September 1932), 'I didn't like hearing of your experience in that boat with Francois, & it is a good thing that the old man came and rescued you. I know that messing about in a boat along the coast is very dangerous…..I do not think that I shall be able to afford to let you join the Territorials. I am very hard up & there is no improvement in the tea trade' (14th September 1932), 'Do you remember my telling you of Mr. Hall - a Lyon's taster. He is here again & on his way to Calcutta…..He says that you are very lucky to have secured your job' (6th October 1932), 'I was up…..yesterday to lunch with the Allans…..& much enjoyed the outing. Elisabeth (sic) Allan is now getting £12,000 per annum. She is a very good actress, & has gone to Hollywood' (8th January 1933). Many of the letters are accompanied by the original envelopes hand addressed by James. Together with a small selection of manuscript notes (in several unidentified hands) and printed ephemera etc., relating to the death of Herbert Mark James in December 1933 including a printed small 8vo Order for the Burial of the Dead at Norwood Crematorium, obituary provided to King's School, Canterbury etc., and also including a selection of vintage photographs of various sizes, most associated with or depicting Jimmy James's father (and mother?) and largely dating from his time in India, a few showing Jimmy James as a baby and young boy accompanied by his sister, some images of King's School Canterbury sports teams including the football team of 1889, later school photographs of 1931 & 1932 (one annotated by Jimmy James to the verso) etc. Some of the photographs are loosely contained in envelopes annotated by Jimmy James and some bear annotations to the verso in the hand of his father identifying the subjects etc. FR to generally G, 106
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