including a notepad with several handwritten poems and draft letters; script, film treatment and correspondence relating to 'Puckoon A Musical Extravaganza'; a typewritten Ode to Spike Milligan on March 3rd, 1998, reading, Ooooh! All hail to you Spike, comedian, writer and actor/Out of whose soul works of genius continue to pour/You have every right your own trumpet to blow/Because thanks to you we are privileged to have heard ''The Goon Show!''/And I remember you onstage in ''Oblomov'', where you changed the script every might/Which gave your fellow actors a terrible fright!/The list of your triumphs is too long to mention/And the brain in your head is a mine of invention./Therefore I acclaim you, as genius and Poet/And drink to your health with a chilled glass of Moet./So loudly let the people cheer/And show by their actions that Spike they revere/For he has made the nation laugh for at least 60 glorious year!, signed Joseph Topaz McGrath; together with various documents covering subjects such as conservation and population, and an Inventory & Valuation Of Furniture And Effects For the purposes of Insurance The Property of Frankie Howard Esq., 11th January 1951, inscribed by Spike, A veritable Treasure House The Times Should be thrown open to the Public The Financial Times
including a notepad with several handwritten poems and draft letters; script, film treatment and correspondence relating to 'Puckoon A Musical Extravaganza'; a typewritten Ode to Spike Milligan on March 3rd, 1998, reading, Ooooh! All hail to you Spike, comedian, writer and actor/Out of whose soul works of genius continue to pour/You have every right your own trumpet to blow/Because thanks to you we are privileged to have heard ''The Goon Show!''/And I remember you onstage in ''Oblomov'', where you changed the script every might/Which gave your fellow actors a terrible fright!/The list of your triumphs is too long to mention/And the brain in your head is a mine of invention./Therefore I acclaim you, as genius and Poet/And drink to your health with a chilled glass of Moet./So loudly let the people cheer/And show by their actions that Spike they revere/For he has made the nation laugh for at least 60 glorious year!, signed Joseph Topaz McGrath; together with various documents covering subjects such as conservation and population, and an Inventory & Valuation Of Furniture And Effects For the purposes of Insurance The Property of Frankie Howard Esq., 11th January 1951, inscribed by Spike, A veritable Treasure House The Times Should be thrown open to the Public The Financial Times
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