House Sold to Author
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In 1966 we bought our first house. It was a picturesque cottage in rural Suffolk, and was the lodge of a large estate which had been broken up. While living there I got very interested in genealogy and I bought first one, and later another book by the leading authority on the subject in those days, Leslie Gilbert Pine. In 1970 we sold the house. We were away when the agent brought prospective buyers to view the property, so I never met the man who eventually bought it, and I didn’t know his identity until I came to sign the contract. The buyer was Leslie Gilbert Pine! From the entry about him in Wikipaedia you can see that he had several more books published in the 1970s while he was, presumably, living in the house we sold him.
Date submitted:Sat, 16 Jun 2012 08:52:21 +0000Coincidence ID:6425
