Letters
Several interesting letters from Peter Mackarness' collection are reproduced here, as transcriptions and/or images of the originals. The writers are Jane Meynell, George Mackarness, the novelist 'Ouida', Dr Frank Godfrey, Grace Milford, and Torla Mackarness.
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1847-8 'We have a cruise in prospect - to Tenerife. The Royalties are all going except the Queen' - selections by Eleanor Booker from George Richard Mackarness' Madeira letters
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'such a queer man ...with a red wig, a still redder nose and black SPLODSHES on his face' - letter from Jane Meynell (sister-in-law of George Richard Mackarness), probably written in the 1850s
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'Who can reconcile the tiger & the dog?' Hard-hitting letter from novelist 'Ouida' to Frederic Mackarness, around 1900, concerning the South Africa Reconciliation Committee
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January 1915 - 'She is one in a thousand and is just full of heart, of sympathy, of love and unselfishness' - letter from Dr. Frank Godfrey to his son-in-law Cuthbert Mackarness in Calcutta. See Grace Mackarness' diary from 1915 for the context of this letter.
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February 1915 - 'He is a good fellow - sound & straight & clean - he will make her happy' - extracts from Dr. Frank Godfrey's letter to his sister Frederica, who was was en route to Australia
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1918 - 'A wonderful bit of news, viz. that dear old Guy is engaged to be married!' - letter from Grace Mackarness to her second
son Cuthbert
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1920 - 'As I write by the fire in my room, that small Peter of yours is making hay on the floor with my instrument bag and its contents, chuckling and roaring with laughter' - letter from Dr. Frank Godfrey to his son-in-law Cuthbert
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1944 - Letter from Torla Mackarness to her mother Muriel Tidman, about crossing to Belgium with the ATS
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