AUTOGRAPH SCOOP

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 117, 3 June 1937, Page 9

AUTOGRAPH SCOOP

-Prais Anooiation.)

"Wallis Simpson" Securcd

(St Telezraph-

"WELLINGTON, Last Night. I "I regard this a* my greatest success," said Miss J. M. Golley, of Wellington, when sho showed her xe- : ported latest addition to her collection ! of autographs. ' 'It is the signature of ^ the Duke of Windsor'* bride." "Wallis, Simpson "is written with a flowing, eul- 1 tured hand* on a pencil pprtrait of her- i self drawn by Miss Colley, who sends a . pencil portrait nsually drawn from a' photograph. Fearing that the xequest might be j side-tracked, Miss Colley adopted the ; plan of addressing the letter to Mrs. Herman Eogers, Mrs. Simpson, 's hostess, To Mrs. Eogers was made the tact,*. . fnl request that she should pass. the.( drawing on to her guest. The plan • worked and back. from Cannes came the autofraphed portrait together with th'efollowing, dated April 14 and. written on behalf of Mrs. Simpson by Mr.. Eogers: — "Mrs. Simpson has asked ma to write ! to you and say that in your case she is happy to relax her usual tuIo not to give autographs. " Becently Miss Colley secured Mr. Neville Chamberlain 's autograph by sending him a portrait of himself and now she is planning a campaign toj "bag" the Duke of Windsor. "He will be more diffieult, ' ' she said, "but I have thought of a plan. The problem is to get past his secretaries/'