THE ARCHIVE OF CLARENCE WINCHESTER (1895-1981), AVIATOR, ESSAYIST AND PUBLISHER, COMPRISING FLIGHT: FIFTEEN GLASS WHOLE PLATE AERIAL NEGATIVES OF THE SUSSEX COAST, INCLUDING BRIGHTON AND HOVE TAKEN BY CLARENCE WINCHESTER IN 1913 FROM “ERIC PASHLEY’S BI-PLANE”, FIVE VINTAGE GELATIN SILVER PRINTS FROM THE PRECEDING NEGATIVES, TOGETHER MOUNTED, COMPRISING VIEWS OF THE HOVE LAWNS, WESTPIER AND FRONT BRIGHTON AND APPROACH OVER THE HARBOUR AND RIVER ADUR TO SHOREHAM-BY-SEA AERODROME, FURTHER INSCRIBED “PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN IN 1913 BY CLARENCE WINCHESTER WITH A SANDERSON BELLOWS CAMERA FROM A HENRY FARMAN BOX-KITE TYPE BI-PLANE WITH FRONT ELEVATOR AND 50 HP ROTARY GNOME ENGINE AT REAR HEIGHTS VARY FROM 500 TO 1200FT…”, TOGETHER FRAMED, PHOTOGRAPH OF THE WINCHESTER-BRYNILDSEN GLIDER 1922, ROYAL AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY SCROLL AWARDED ON WINCHESTER’S ELECTION AS AN ASSOCIATE 11 JANUARY 1938, SEALED, WINCHESTER’S ROYAL AERO CLUB LICENCE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE GLIDING CONTEST 16TH – 21ST OCTOBER 1922, , WINCHESTER’S POEMS OF AN AIR PILOT, UNPAGINATED, DUST WRAPPERS, 1921 AND NINETEEN REAL PHOTOGRAPHIC AND PRINTED POSTCARDS OF BI-PLANES OR AERIAL VIEWS AND ONE OF WINCHESTER STANDING BEFORE HIS AEROPLANE, MOSTLY SENT TO MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY, THE MESSAGES RELATED. LETTERS AND ARTICLES: INCLUDING A.L.S AND COPY T.L.S, MANY ANNOTATED, MANUSCRIPT AND TYPESCRIPT POETRY AND PROSE, FIVE ALBUMS OF WINCHESTER’S ARTICLES FROM THE ARGONAUT, PALL MALL GAZETTE, SUNDAY EXPRESS, THE WORLD, DAILY MAIL, EVENING MAIL, FLIGHT, ET AL, LETTERS FROM HIS LITERARY AGENT AND OTHER BUSINESS CORRESPONDENCE AND CORRESPONDENCE CONCERNING THE ROYAL PHILATELIC COLLECTION BY SIR JOHN WILSON (DESIGNED AND EDITED BY WINCHESTER) 1953, INCLUDING A LETTER TO HIS WIDOW ON BEHALF OF QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER, “THE QUEEN MOTHER KNOWS SO WELL THE AFFECTION AND ADMIRATION FELT FOR YOUR HUSBAND BY THOSE OF EVERY AGE AND BACKGROUND. HIS BOOK, THE ROYAL PHILATELIC COLLECTION HAS ALWAYS BEEN TREASURED BY HER MAJESTY…“ [SIGNED MARTIN GILLIAT], WWII BRITISH PATRIOTIC BOOKLETS, THREE PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHS OF WINCHESTER AS A YOUNG MAN, ONE INSCRIBED GREETINGS FROM THE GOLD COAST… 1945 AND A STUDIO PORTRAIT. BOOKS AND PRINTS: INCLUDING THE SECOND BOOK OF THE OMAR KHAYYAM CLUB 1910-1929, PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED BY MARTIN HARDIE RA, NUMBERED 9 OF THE EDITION OF 125. BOOKS BY WINCHESTER: NOVELS AND VERSE BUT INCLUDING FLYING MEN AND THEIR MACHINES 1916, GEORGE BAKER (B.1895, CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR FROM BURY, NEAR ARUNDEL) – THE SOUL OF A SKUNK THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR 1930, CAT’S MEAT AND KINGS AND THREE OTHERS BY THE SAME, PART WORKS EDITED BY WINCHESTER IN THE INTER-WAR PERIOD, INCLUDING WONDERS OF WORLD AVIATION AND RAILWAY WONDERS OF THE WORLD, BOOKS PUBLISHED BY WINCHESTER’S INPRINT (WINCHESTER PUBLICATIONS LIMITED) INCLUDING THE CROWN JEWELS AND OTHER REGALIA IN THE TOWER OF LONDON BY MAJOR GENERAL H D W SITWELL, EDITED BY CLARENCE WINCHESTER BY WHOM SIGNED ON THE TITLE, 1953, ETON MEDLEY, HARROW SCHOOL YESTERDAY AND TODAY, THE PERMANENT WAY AND SEVERAL PAPERBACK BOOKS. MEMORABILIA AND WORKS OF ART: COMPRISING WINCHESTER’S HAND SEAL WITH INITIAL W, E ELLIOT LTD BROWN BAKELITE VP TWIN CAMERA, PASTEL PORTRAIT OF THE HEAD OF CLARENCE WINCHESTER BY ADRIAN BURY (1891-1991), SIGNED, DATED OCTOBER 10, 1932 AND INSCRIBED ‘TO MY DEAR FRIEND CLARENCE WINCHESTER FROM ADRIAN BURY’, 29 X 19CM, LIFE SIZED BRONZE-PAINTED GLASS FIBRE PORTRAIT BUST OF WINCHESTER AFTER THE SCULPTURE BY ANTHONY GRAY FRBS, 1962 AND TWO ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS FOR THE COVER OF THE ARGOSY, C1930, BY ‘OLICK’ (?), SIGNED, GOUACHE, FRAMEDProvenance: Clarence Winchester; thence by descent to the present vendor Condition report