MRS WARFIELD’S AUTOGRAPH

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22109, 3 June 1937, Page 10

MRS WARFIELD’S AUTOGRAPH

WELLINGTON COLLECTOR’S SUCCESS PLAN TO “BAG” T|IE DUKE OF WINDSOR (rBE33 ASSOCIATION TELEGEAU.) WELLINGTON, June 2. “I regard this as my greatest success,” said Miss J. M. Colley, of Wellington, when she showed a reporter the latest addition to her collection of autographs. It is the signature of the Duke of Windsor’s bride, “Wallis Simpson.” It is written with a flowing cultured hand, on a pencil portrait of herself drawn by Miss Colley, who drew it from a photograph. Fearing that the request might be sidetracked, Miss Colley adopted the plan of addressing the letter to Mrs Herman Rogers, Mrs Simpson’s hostess. To Mrs Rogers was made a tactful request that she should pass the drawing on to her guest. The plan worked. 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 to relax her usual rule not to give autographs.” Recently Miss Colley secured Mr Neville Chamberlain’s autograph by 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 I have thought of a plan. The problem is to get past the secretaries.”