(Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead.)—Thanks her for helping to arrange for the safe birth of her son.
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Transcript
Dearest Emmeline,
I am only allowed to write to Silvio so slip in a note for you to sign.
Yes dear friend he is a fine healthy beautiful Child perfect in every way. Yet I am told if I had not come here {1} when I did I should not have brought him out alive. And that I could not have done so without Lady Barretts help in the nick of time as it was.
So dear it seems I owe him to you and Silvio {1}–You first and through all.
Thanks thanks and love.
Till Friday
Sylvia.
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This letter was evidently written shortly after the birth of Sylvia Pankhurst’s son Richard on 3 December 1927. A few of the words are indistinct.
{1} The Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, where Lady Barrett was a consultant surgeon. See PETH 9/61.