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MCPP/GM/3/2/1916/77
Title
Letter from Ruth to George Mallory, 29 July 1916
Date(s)
- 29 July 1916 (Creation)
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1 Item, paper
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(18 June 1886 - 1924)
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Describes the weather. Expresses her anxiety over the danger he is in and discusses her thoughts on his happiness in adventure. Discusses the details of his previous letter and reassures him about his feelings towards their own troops being shelled by their own guns being his fault. Discusses the issue of men and work. Describes a trip to the river that her father and Mildred made with Clare and the Cockerell children. Describes a letter she received from Marjorie about life on the farm. Tells him her father was amused by his retort regarding potatoes.
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Former reference
F/GM/IV/4
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Name access points
- Mallory [née Turner], Ruth (1892-1942), wife of mountaineer George Mallory (Subject)
- Cockerell, Sir Sydney Carlyle (1867–1962), museum director and book collector (Subject)
- Millikan [née Mallory], Frances Clare (1915-2001), daughter of George Mallory (Subject)
- Turner, Hugh Thackeray (1853-1937), architect and amateur china painter, father of Ruth Mallory (Subject)
- Morgan [née Turner], Mildred (1892-1985), sister of Ruth Mallory (Subject)
- Turner, Marjorie May (1889-1972), sister of Ruth Mallory (Subject)