… Letter from Gertrude Bell to Thomas Hodgkin, estimated to have been written in 1909. … … this item. … Northallerton … Letter from Gertrude Bell to Thomas Hodgkin …
… Letter from Gertrude Bell to Thomas Hodgkin, estimated to have been written in 1909. … … this item. … Northallerton … Letter from Gertrude Bell to Thomas Hodgkin …
… quicker to send a letter by Father than to post it. I can't tell you what it has been like to have him for these two … had a very delightful lunch today with Lord Robert and T.E. Lawrence - just we 4. Tonight the Sidney Peels come to dinner …
… I felt dreadfully lonely after you had gone but that didn't undo the permanent good of your visit. I can't tell you … has met my eye - they really are an amazing people. T.E. Lawrence and I arranged to lunch together. As we were …
… evening at Mr Stead's house (editor of Times - I don't like him but he was very useful.) The party was Domnul, T.E.L. [T.E. Lawrence] and me to meet a number of French journalists …
… yours and Father's, bless him a thousand times. I can't write of it, but I ask myself what I should have done … and had a heavenly afternoon there, the MacMahons, Lord Edward and I. A wonderful place it is. Finally we escaped … it delightful! He dined with me last night, he and Mr Lawrence and Col. Newcombe, a nice man whom I once met in …
… 3. [3 June 1909] Walked round the top of the walls with Thomas Effendi from the Kharput Gate to the Mardin Gate then … quite a different pattern, with one square bastion on the E side. After I had come in Mrs Thomas came to see me and also Hajji 'Adleh, I. Pasha's …
… Este. At 10.15 we got to Kenderib[?] and found there Thomas Effendi, the dragoman from Diarbekr [Diyarbakir … At 12.15 we lunched under a tree for 1/2 an hour - poor Thomas had come 16 hours yesterday - 5 today before he met … hills and down a valley to Killeth which we reached at 4. Thomas knows the Yezidis well. He says Malek Ta'ous is the …
… So then I led the conversation away and at that moment Edward Hedley came in and I left. Then I went to see Caroline … like to see. But we have seen it all in the Times. I don't think it is likely he will come to Redcar at all - he is … all the same; wisdom with her tongue in her cheek. Maude Lawrence and Margaret P. were just in front of us, and Tiny …
… [18 March 1902] Up at 5 and off to Ephesus with Mr and Mrs Edward, their 4 daughters 2 Maltas girls, Helen and Arthur Whittall and a daughter in law of Mrs Edward. She Mrs E is a very nice kind woman. Drove to the Point. Talked to Mr …
… you say about the rly strike is most interesting. As for Edward Pease, I've a mystic feeling that he was destined to … as a Dep. Military Governor and he proved wanting. He can't do anything. Then he went to our vernacular press where he … and if anyone has to do it, you may be sure it will be Edward Pease. That's my feeling about him. Your very …
… Street Dearest Mother. I suppose from what you say that Mr Lawrence and Mr Mallet have refused and I have accordingly … Green (she fled in a few minutes!) Charles and Moll, Mrs E. Grant Duff and a sister, Mr Geikie, Mr Ball, Flora, … has stayed in her room today. Hedley has been and doesn't seem to say anything. I don't think he is any good at all. …