Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Horace Annesley Vachell NPG Ax39164

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Walter Stoneman, for James Russell & Sons

As a young man, Vachell travelled to California where he was a partner in a land company. He had returned to England by 1900 and turned his attention to writing, going on to produce more than fifty novels and volumes of short stories, as well as plays, essays and several autobiographical books. Perhaps his most popular success was The Hill (1905), which gives an idealised view of life at Harrow and of the friendship between two boys. His most successful play was Quinneys (1914), which... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.