Item 6 - Letter from Edwin Montagu to Venetia Stanley

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MONT II/B/1/6

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Letter from Edwin Montagu to Venetia Stanley

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  • 28 June 1910 (Creation)

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India Office, London.—Is sorry she cannot come [to his Budget dinner]. Discusses his personality and his behaviour towards her.

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      TRANSCRIPT:

      India Office
      28.6.1910.

      Dear Miss Stanley

      I’m sorry you cant come Thursday. Anent my dishonesty perhaps you’re right but I do think you’re not altogether.
      When I try to collect coolly a medley of attitudes I know

      (1) that I’m still a little frightened of you.

      (2) that I talk a great deal.

      (3) often very nakedly.

      (4) that an attractive sentiment really just made out to fill a gap in conversation becomes developed irresistibly to astonishing proportions.

      However there it is. You are welcome to think I’m dishonest in pretending, really pretending, or honestly {1} to account for thinks {2} as your own unlimited shrewdness suggests to you. I’m too slack and too busy to write at the length necessary really to explain myself—for which be properly grateful.

      Give me a chance to continue before the end of the century!
      Yrs
      Edwin S. Montagu

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      {1} Reading uncertain.

      {2} Reading uncertain. If this is the correct reading, it is presumably a mistake for ‘things’.

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