SIGNATURE OF MRS SIMPSON

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 450, 4 June 1937, Page 7

SIGNATURE OF MRS SIMPSON

Wellington Collector’s Prize Press Association—CopyTißht. Wellington, June 3. “I regard this as my greatest 'success,” £.aid Miss- J. M. Colley, Wei lington, when she showed a reporter the latest addition to her collection of autographs. It is the signature of the Duke of Windsor’s bride, ‘‘Wi llis Simpson,” written with a flowing culhand on a ■ pencil portrait of herself drawn by Miss Colley, whose custom it is to send a pencil portrait usually drawn from a photograph. Fearing the request might be Sidetracked. Miss Colley adopted the plan of addressing the letter to Mrs H<s.r_ nlan Rogers, Mrs Simpson’s hos'less To Mrs Rogers was made the tactful request that sh e should pass the drawing on to her guest. The plan worked, and back from Cannes came the autographed portrait, together with a letter dated April 14 and written -on behalf of Mrs Simpson by Mr Rogers. “Mrs Simpson has asked me to write to you and say that in your case she is happy 1 to relax her usual rule not to give autographs.” Recently Miss Colley secured Mr Neville Chamberliain’s autograph bj sending him a portrait of himself: now she is planning, a campaign to' “bag” the Duke of Windsor. ‘‘He will be more difficult,” she said, “but 1 have thought of a plan. The problem is to get past the secretaries.”