Identity area
Reference code
MONT II/A/1/103
Title
Letter from Venetia Stanley to Edwin Montagu
Date(s)
- Feb. 1915? (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
1 sheet
Context area
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(1879-1924)
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Scope and content
(London Hospital, Whitechapel?).—Asks him to repeat the contents of his telegram, as she has lost it. Will see him on Wednesday.
(Dated Monday.)
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Transcript
Monday
A real tragedy has occurred. A long thrilling telegram came from you, I had just time to glance at the signature & then great press obliged me to thrust it in my pocket, from whence it slipped & I’ve no idea what it contained. Will you repeat it?
I’m devoured by curiosity.
Wednesday I see you.
Yrs
V
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Written in pencil. Later hands have added, at the top, ‘To ESM’, and, at the end, ‘With mid Feby letters’. Probably written at the London Hospital, Whitechapel.