The Heron-Allen Society

Can anyone pronounce or identify TRTHWWSTHPLLGG in Cornwall mentioned in Princess Daphne? (Eric Trevanion's house) and does it mean anything?

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Heron-Allen portrait

The painter of the portrait of Edward Heron-Allen that Ivor Jones has kindly allowed us to reproduce is unknown. All that is known about the portrait is that it was exhibited at the Paris Exhibition in 1927. The Society is anxious to identify the artist and any suggestions …

Request for help:

A colleague has recently bought a letter to EH-A from Gilbert James, the well-known book illustrator. In it, James offers to sell the originals of his pictures for the 1907 Foulis edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

Does anyone recall hearing anything about those pictures or …

Edward Heron-Allen and Jessie Alice Palmer Charitable Trust Bequests

One of the long-standing queries on the website of the Heron-Allen Society is a request for information about Jessie Alice Palmer and the Jessie Alice Palmer Charitable Trust bequests. The query arose from the discovery of a report in The Times …

In his War Diary, Heron-Allen wrote on 9 February 1919: "I sent my 'squib' on the 'sitting face' to Arthur Humphreys, the literary bookseller of 'Hatchards', who accepted it at once for his delightful magazine 'Books of Today' and asked me to add a paragraph to fill a page. I …

Portrait of Heron-Allen by R.B. Ogle
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Edward Heron-Allen and the scholar's stone

The rediscovery by Mr. Clive Jones of Richard Bertram Ogle's portrait of Edward Heron-Allen was doubtless welcomed warmly by members of this society. Discoveries, however, have an annoying habit of generating …