Item 12 - Letter from Edwin Montagu to Venetia Stanley

18 Mansfield Street, London.—Bad weather and a lack of moral courage have brought him back to London for tomorrow [i.e. for the Coronation].

TRANSCRIPT:

18 Mansfield Street, Portland Place, W.
4.30 P.M. | 21.6.

Dear Miss Stanley

I called today just to confess that appalling weather and a lack of moral courage has brought me back to London for tomorrow {1}!!

Now I’m feeling very miserable and craven. If you want to jeer, I’m at 61 Western {2}

Edwin S. Montagu

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Black-edged paper.

{1} i.e. for the Coronation.

{2} Montagu’s address for telegrams.