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Transcript of notes by B. Young about Agnata, and her own beliefs written shortly before her death.

Concerning the gift by J R M Butler of A F Butler's desk to Girton.

Venice

Tributes to H. M. Butler, Agnata has been looking at houses with a view to moving.

Typed copy. Union Club, Alexandria. Has met Winstanley who is working for the Red Cross, relief in the Peninsula at the change of command.

Typed copy. S S Canada. Return to Lemnos.

Typed copy. Lindsay Sap, Gallipoli. Description of daily routine, has responsibility for four widely-spaced guns, looks forward to weekly Fortnum and Masons boxes.

Typed copy. Lindsay Sap. Many letters and parcels have now reached him, would love to see Simpson in khaki, Nevile Butler's job should not damage the prospects of English interned in Germany, exchange of fire and storm, Captains Loring and Sloan died of festering wounds.

Trinity Lodge. Tributes to H M Butler, Mrs MacLeod [housekeeper] has looked at the house on Brookside and approves, wishes to stay in Cambridge because H M Butler loved it so much.

Two letters, one concerning portraits of pupils of William Hopkins [possibly portraits by Thomas Charles Wageman, shelfmark 307.bb.85.98], the other concerning the donation of her husband [H. M. Butler]'s books to the Library.

Funeral of H M Butler, Agnata Butler to take a house in Cambridge on a temporary basis.

Typed copy. Reserve Trenches. Amazement at the terrain scaled by the Anzacs.

Typed copy. Intermediate Base, M E F. Bath at [ ], Father Day.

Typed copy. Sidi Bashir. Arrived in Alexandria, met with Aunt Kitty.

war made it impossible to get to Salamis

Typed copy. Mena Camp, Cairo. Travels in the area around Aswan.

Typed copy. Mena Camp, Cairo. Description of the evacuation of Suvla.

Typed copy. Turf Club, Cairo. Tour of the pyramids, trip into the desert, does not know why Nevile Butler did not join the Scots Horse.

Typed copy. El Quantara. Football match against the English Army, passed machine gun examination with 99%, made a Special Instructor.

Typed copy. Nevile Butler's commission: El Quantara

Typed copy. El Quantara. Believes Mesopotamia front will be a stalemate, soldiers' letters home not always reliable.

Witnessed the King take an oath before the boule

[1 Nelson Street, Edinburgh]. Memories of Agnata Butler.

Typed copy. El Quantara. J R M Butler now about 20 miles away.

Typed copy. El Quantara. Thanks Agnata Butler for a watch, excercise to practise co-operation between Artillery and Infantry.

Typed copy. El Quantara. Has received horses and mules for the machine gun transport.