Item 130 - Letter from Julian Stafford Corbett to Robert Erskine Childers

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CHIL/2/130

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Letter from Julian Stafford Corbett to Robert Erskine Childers

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  • 27 Jan. 1906 (Creation)

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Childers, Robert Erskine (1870-1922), author and politician
(1870-1922)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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War Course College, Devonport. - 'The Admiralty is anxious to get some information about the Frisian coast - the scene of your "Riddle of the Sands" - & it is not thought expedient to send anyone to get it just now. It is thought you could furnish what is wanted & I am to ask if you would be willing to go with me next Saturday to luncheon at the house of Capt. Ottley Director of Naval Intelligence & there meet my chief Capt. Slade, Director of the War Course...'

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