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Letter from Gertrude Bell to her stepmother, Dame Florence Bell

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Reference code
GB/1/1/1/1/16/5
Recipient
Bell, Dame Florence Eveleen Eleanore
Creator
Bell, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian
Person(s) mentioned
Lascelles, William [Billy]
Lyall, Alfred Comyn
Ramsay, W.M.
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Extent and medium
1 letter, paper
Language
English
Location
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51.495762, -0.158953

95 Sloane Street Sunday Dearest Mother. I didn't write yesterday because I thought you would have news of me from Father. Hedley says I'm not quite sound yet and I am still very easily tired, but I'm a great deal better and I think I shall be all right in a day or two. Father will have told you the idea that has come into my head about Ramsay and Asia Minor. I feel sure you will sympathise with it and the more I thought of it the more I concluded that it was worth trying. So I wrote to Ramsay this morning and will see what he says. I shall not go without him for it would not be worth while. I think I should go away about June 1st and be back in the middle of August. Then of course I should stay all the winter in England.
Elsa and I are going to lunch at Mansfield St and I will post this on the way.

I met Sir A. Lyall at the Private View of the old Watercolours yesterday. He congratulated me warmly on Father's appointment and said he was delighted and that it was a great honour.

It's such lovely weather! Your affectionate daughter Gertrude

Sir Frank tells me that everyone is saying it's perfectly monstrous how Winston C. [Churchill] runs the Govt. No one is heard from the Treasury Bench but he.

Evolving Hands is a collaborative digital scholarship project between Newcastle University and Bucknell University which explores the use of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) and Text Encoded Initiative (TEI XML) to enhance cultural heritage material. In this project, we have applied these methods to a selection of letters from the Gertrude Bell Archive.


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