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Letter from Gertrude Bell to her father, Sir Hugh Bell

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GB/1/1/2/1/6/7
Recipient
Bell, Sir Thomas Hugh Lowthian
Creator
Bell, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian
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1 letter, paper
Language
English
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46.680062, 8.153562

Rosenlaui Tuesday. Dearest Father. I telegraphed to you today that you may know I am whole and sound. My toes are still rather painful. Still I managed the hour's walk up yesterday without much discomfort. I feel a little slack but quite well. I am staying here 2 days to rest and propose to leave on Thursday and if possible come home via Bruges [Brugge] to see the exhibition. I must see how trains go - also I am dreadfully poor! so I shan't go if it's an expensive journey. The Cunninghams are here and an enormous party of Monkswell relations. I do wonder what has happened about the Bodleys! what a bore that they are in the north. I'm so enchanted to hear that He has come!
I have got Cook's letter and the copy of the Times for which thank you. Won't it be fun! I quite agree that we had better not be too captious about berths.

My two guides have got rather frostbitten fingers. I have left them at Innertkirchen to recover. I have a letter from Lord Lovelace saying that he has called a peak after me in the Dolomites!

I'm afraid I shall have to stop in London a day or two as I must see Field on my way, but I hope to be home early next week.

I wonder how Grandpapa is enjoying Mount Grace! Ever your very affectionate daughter Gertrude

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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