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MCPP/GM/3/2/1916/3
Title
Letter from Ruth to George Mallory, 7 May 1916
Date(s)
- 7 - 8 May 1916 (Creation)
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1 Item, paper
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(18 June 1886 - 1924)
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Sunday - Is glad to hear about his journey and warns him not to tell her too much information. Updates him on Clare's progress. Informs him that his pamphlets have been sent to Mr Rendall, Mr Benson, Mr Fletcher and Mr Allen.
Monday - Describes the weather and her plans for the day. Tells him she misses him and updates him on her train journey home after they said goodbye. She hopes that she might be pregnant. Expresses her wish to help the war effort. Informs him she is is going to Hazelmere.
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Note
Ruth has dated this letter as the 6 May, however, that Sunday in May 1916 was the 7th
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Former reference
F/GM/IV/3
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Name access points
- Millikan [née Mallory], Frances Clare (1915-2001), daughter of George Mallory (Subject)
- Rendall, Gerald Henry (1851–1945), educator and college administrator, headmaster at Charterhouse (Subject)
- Mallory [née Turner], Ruth (1892-1942), wife of mountaineer George Mallory (Subject)
- Benson, Arthur Christopher (1862-1925), poet and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge (Subject)
- Fletcher, Frank Sir (1870-1954), headmaster of Charterhouse (Subject)