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Add. MS a/517 · File · 1881-1918
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Nine letters from Henry Montagu Butler and three from Agnata Butler; one sent from Harrow, the others from the Lodge at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Mention in letter of 20 Dec. 1915 of their sons 'Jim and Gordon... now in "dug-outs"... within 150 yards of the Turkish trenches, exposed to incessant sniping and shrapnel. Their letters... are not only loving and vivid but always, especially perhaps Gordon's full of "laughter"...'

Agnata's third letter talks of the death of her husband.

Butler, Henry Montagu (1833-1918), college head
BUTJ/N/44b · Item · 1916
Part of Papers of Sir James Butler (J. R. M. Butler)

With captions on versos, numbered 1-22, lacking number 19. Images of Egypt are taken by the travellers, and depict the Colossi of Memnon, a trip by camel into the desert, a camel fair, the Ramesseum in Thebes, the "Wall of the World", Aswan, Philae, a Nubian village, their Nile boat, and one image of Jim, Gordon, and Strelton? on a Philae kiosk.

Add. MS a/199/41 · Item · 12 July [1918]
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Sends the book in remembrance of Archie Don's happy days at Trinity and his friendship with Gordon Butler. Treasures the memory of H. M. Butler and the verse he presented her the previous autumn.

Don, Lucy Flora (c 1854-1928), née Campbell, wife of Robert Bogle Don