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Reference code
MCPP/GM/3/2/1918/42
Title
Letter from Ruth to George Mallory, 3 November 1918
Date(s)
- 3 November 1918 (Creation)
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1 item, paper
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(18 June 1886 - 1924)
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Scope and content
Acknowledges his letter thanking her for the curtain. Asks him for more information about his Mess. Discusses the progress of the peace talks. Expresses her opinion about the Irish potato famine from the book she is reading. Updates him with news on Marjorie Waterhouse. Expresses her wish to buy a piano after the war. Describes the weather and sitting by the fire.
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Former reference
F/GM/VI/5
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Name access points
- Mallory [née Turner], Ruth (1892-1942), wife of mountaineer George Mallory (Subject)
- Turner, Hugh Thackeray (1853-1937), architect and amateur china painter, father of Ruth Mallory (Subject)
- Turner, Marjorie May (1889-1972), sister of Ruth Mallory (Subject)
- Reade, Herbert (active 1911, 1923), early climbing friend of George Mallory (Subject)