Q-Eye – 28 May 2010
From teddy bears to the Hay Literary Festival
Teddy Headley 
AFTER OUR APPEAL last week, we soon learned that a ‘Jack Hoyland bear’ (see photograph) has just been given to the library at Friends House. Donated by Bettina Headley, it belonged to her late husband John. She tells Eye that Young Friends at Yearly Meeting in 1936 or 1937 were taught by Jack to make the bears to give to Basque refugee children fleeing the Spanish civil war.
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