Summary
This letter of sympathy was one of a large number sent to his trainer and part owner Harry Telford after Phar Lap died in April, 1932. The Telford family retained the letters, and they were donated to the museum in the 1990s.
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Donation from Mrs Nancy Telford, 20 Oct 1999
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Text: Dear Sir/Kindly accept our sympathy/in the sad loss of your beautiful charge/and Australia's wonder horse/We are all members of the R.S.P.C.A. and/keen lovers of animals and can quite/realise what it meant to have Phar Lap/his untimely end & just whn he had shown/Ameicans his wonderful brilliancy/surely no one could be guilty of/destroying our most-perfect-horse/Believe me.
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Overall Dimensions
25.2 cm (Length), 19.1 cm (Width)
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Keywords
Correspondence, Death & Mourning, Horse Racing, Horses, Racing Industry, Sport, Making History - Phar Lap
