Help needed to decipher this!

[kerryb]

If you look at some of the writing on the letter the writer consistently seems to write e's without the loop so I think it is Sherie.

Kerry

[LizzieW]

surely then it would be Dear Mr Shine,

Not if they had been public (in UK = private!) schoolboys, but in that case the signatory would just have put Emmet.  The mother of my American granddaughter is called Sherie, so I suppose it could be that if the recipient of the letter is American.

Liz

[jaylay]

I agree it seems odd to use just a surname and no Mr. or whatever - but in the letter - not the scanned bit - the writer says "I saw Shiel a few days ago"  I'm pretty sure it is Shiel - since that is a name that has cropped up in my tree (not part of the family, but an attorney acting for one of them).  Also if the addressee is Sherie, then that would be the only place in the entire letter where the write has placed the dot directly over the i and not after it (if you see what I mean...)  Curiouser and curiouser.....

Jaylay

[slightlyfoxed]

I agree I think it is Shine. If this was someone writing to a man he regarded as his social inferior he might well use just the name.

[lizdb]

If he has forgotten to cross the 't', it could be Dear Stevie

[Garethboxing]

I doubt if anyone addressing someone as Stevie would sign off as formally as R Emmet.

I stick by my earlier post - I believe it was a surname and, perhaps, as suggested by slightlyfoxed, someone Emmet considered his social inferior, a tradesman of some sort.

   Gareth

[Lesanne]

  It could also read as Slime  Sli   ^^^ e, my dad writes this way.
   ^^^ m and ^^ n.
                                  Lesanne.

[Lambendsor (aka IGS)]

I had a look at the 1930 census at the library today and found a lawyer named Richard EMMET living at 131 East 66th Street, New York City - that's between Park and Lexington Avenues - and just around the corner from the Mayfair Hotel at 610 Park Avenue.

[jaylay]

Thanks so much everyone for your comments - IGS - special thanks to you for going to all that trouble on my behalf - I now feel fairly sure that the Addressee is Shine and the writer is R Emmet.  (Neither of whom I have come across before in my tree!).  Maybe this is a red herring of a letter

Jaylay