Rare draft of Betjeman poem for sale

The handwritten draft of one of John Betjeman’s best-known poems, ‘The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel’, is just one of the gems in the next tranche of the Roy Davids Collection to appear at Bonhams Bond Street.

A handwritten poem by Keats, I stood tiptoe upon a little hill (estimate £40,000-45,000), is another…

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