Item 12 - Letter from Venetia Stanley to Edwin Montagu

18 Mansfield Street, Portland Place, W.—Is glad he can come.

(Dated Monday. This is a reply to B1/13.)

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Transcript

18 Mansfield Street, Portland Place, W.
Monday

My dear Mr Montagu

I am glad you can come, will you make Geoffrey or Dudley Ward {1} or someone get you a seat at Carnarvon, you will be able to do this easier than we can owing to your exalted position in the government. You have to wear uniform for the show.

Our positions with regards to the Coronation have been entirely reversed, I now absolutely sympathise with your desire to escape it and wish I had gone away, but then I wasnt in the Abbey.

Yours
Venetia Stanley

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Black-edged paper. Marked ‘July 1911’—the year in pencil, the month in green biro.

{1} Both men held senior offices in the Royal Household, Geoffrey Howard being Vice-Chamberlain and Dudley Ward Treasurer.