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Sidney Morgan English film director Autograph Letter Signed to fellow film-director Percy Nash regarding the British Association of Film Directors and the 'great fight to obtain The Quota'.

réf. 17742 — On letterhead of the British Association of Film Directors The Players Club Denman Street London. 30 May 1927. 1p. 4to. In good condition lightly aged. Nash is named on the letterhead as the Association's president and Morgan as Honorary Secretary and Treasurer. The letter begins: Dear Percy / For various reasons we did not get a largely attended meeting on Friday but the better feeling between members seems still to grow.' Nash's 'protracted illness' has clearly necessitated his stepping down as president and 'after considerable discussion it was decided to ask Pearson & Elvey i.e. George Pearson 1875-1973 and Maurice Elvey 1887-1967 to be President & Vice with myself to continue'. He has been asked to convey the Association's sympathy to Nash for his illness '& a resolution was enthusiastically passed expressing the associations appreciation of your long continued & unselfish work particularly in connection with the great fight to obtain The Quota'. He ends by saying that he thinks that 'for your patience & endurance there would today be neither The Association or The Quota'. 'The Quota' is the Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 which required British cinemas to show a quota of British films. On letterhead of the British Association of Film Directors, The Players Club, Denman Street, London. 30 May 1927. unknown