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A leaflet for a recital and poetry reading by the distinguished Jamaican poet and playwright Una Marson (1905-1965) at the Streatham Congregational Church on 31st July 1939. The event, titled ‘Jamaica, One Hundred Years of Freedom’, was organised in aid of the Save the Children Fund. By kind gift of David Horsley. 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