'Book List "My Choice": Original letters from contributors and others' Subject file kept by George F. Vale, Borough Librarian (Bethnal Green), Central Public Library, Cambridge Heath Road. Vale wrote to 'distinguished English men and women for a short list of their favourite books' with 'the aim of fostering good reading' by publishing a brochure by the Council 'to be distributed free to users of the Public Libraries'. Contains letters in response to his request for a list of favourite books from well known public figures and famous individuals as follows: Clement Attlee [Clement Richard Attlee], Prime Minister. The request was declined on his behalf H. E. Bates [Herbert Ernest Bates], author Ivor Brown (The Observer Limited) Agatha Christie [Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie], author Richard Church [Richard Thomas Church], writer, poet and critic Sir Winston Churchill, M.P. The request was declined on his behalf Daniel George, editor John Hadfield [John Charles Heywood Hadfield] (Director of the National Book League), author and publisher Percy Holman (House of Commons), M.P. for Bethnal Green C. A. Lejeune [Caroline Alice Lejeune] (The Observer Limited), writer and film critic Cecil Day-Lewis, poet Ethel Mannin [Ethel Edith Mannin], novelist and travel writer, political activist and socialist Wilson Midgley (John O' London's Weekly, George Newnes Limited), author Field Marshal Montgomery [Bernard Law Montgomery]. The request was declined on his behalf Anna Neagle [Florence Marjorie Wilcox], actress, singer and dancer Nancy Price [Lilian Nancy Bache Price], actress, author and theatre director J. B. Priestley [John Boynton Priestley], novelist, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster and social commentator Sybil Rang, typescript agent Ralph Richardson [Ralph David Richardson], actor. Kay Graham, secretary replies on his behalf Sir Malcolm Sargent [Sir Harold Malcolm Watts Sargent], conductor, organist and composer Dorothy L. Sayers [Dorothy Leigh Sayers], writer and poet. She declined Frank Smythe [Francis Sydney Smythe], mountaineer and author Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey [John Strachey], M.P. He declined Sybil Thorndike [Agnes Sybil Thorndike], actress October 1948 - January 1949