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The ‘Midget’ lined exercise book used as a scrap book with a brief newspaper article dated 22 April 1935 about a concert given by Leslie Evans to entertain prisoners in Winson Green Gaol (with photograph), and another about a performance by him presumably for the BBC at on the ‘Children’s Hour’ programme (undated)
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