Item 8 - Card from G. L. Strachey to A. J. Robertson

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Add. MS a/238/8

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Card from G. L. Strachey to A. J. Robertson

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  • [1. Feb.1902?], [19--] (Creation)

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1 card, 1 sheet

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Gift of Anne Olivier Bell, 1979.

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Card cancelling a meeting of the X Society [1 Feb 1902?], 'Owing to the late martyrdom of his Sacred Majesty King Charles the First of holy memory, there will be no meeting of the X Society tonight'.

With a later undated note by A. J. Robertson, stating he would like to have "these two" back to join his Trinity College juvenilia.

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      An identical postcard, sent to Leonard Woolf in Putney, can be found in the Lytton Strachey Collection at the Harry Ramsden Research Centre, University of Texas, Austin (Box 4 folder 5), clearly postmarked for the afternoon of 1 Feb, 1902. Thanks go to Professor Robert B. Todd for this information, received May 2023.

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      Accompanied by a letter concerning the provenance by Anne Olivier Bell dated 24 June 1979.

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