Letter from Robert Erskine Childers to Ivor Lloyd-Jones, with provenance letter
- Add. MS a/599
- Item
- 24 Nov. 1922
Part of Additional Manuscripts a
A farewell letter written immediately before his death: 'Dearest Ivor, It doesn't matter what you think of me. I know you love me -- the first friendship in my life & indestructable. So in lieu of goodbye & from my heart & soul God bless you & Gwladys & her daughter & give you great happiness. Erskine'.
Accompanied by a letter from Ivor Lloyd-Jones to Norman de Bruyne dated 27 June 1935 donating this letter and [his copy of 'The Riddle of the Sands'] to Trinity College Library, Cambridge.
Childers, Robert Erskine (1870-1922), author and politician