From H. Stanhope

BCARS AE Or3 C421 HOLME LACY, HEREFORD 27th December Dear Miss O’Reilly – I received your letter from Queenstown, and as I thought on reading it that you would prefer that I should refrain from saying anything to my mother, I have not done so. I remembered your saying to me that after you had […]

BCARS AE Or3 C412 26 Egerton Gdn 22, HANS PLACE, S.W. Dear Miss O’Reilly Many thanks for your kind letter. Yes, it is a sad fact that my last chance for promotion has gone & I feel a disappointed kind of outcast, a family failure to be pointed at with scorn by all. I did

BCARS Add MSS412 Box 6 Files 4-10 H.M.S. “Melita” Constantinople 1 July Dear Miss O’Reilly I hope this will catch you before you leave England, as you said you were leaving early this month. You seem to have had a way of moving about. I used to enjoy the summer at Datchet so much, but

BCARS Add MSS412 Box 6 Files 4-10 Dear Miss O’Reilly How very kind of you to remember my birthday. Many thanks for the Battle of Corinto by an enterprising tobacconist. I am sorry to hear the Royal Arthur’s suffered so much from the climate. The new Captain has I think started, I dont know him,

BCARS Add MSS412. Box 6 Files 4-10 H.M.S. “Melita” Sisakin 16 May Dear Miss O’Reilly Many thanks for your letter which I received about a fortnight ago at Jeddah. I did’nt answer from there as I was there under peculiar and very unentertaining circumstances. The plague broke out at Jeddah during the time of the

BCARS Add MSS41 Box 6 Files 4-10 24 April My dear Miss O’Reilly I hope you will excuse a short note at present to thank you so much for the volume of poems . I received your former letter, but did not answer it, as I was waiting from day to day for the book

BCARS Add MSS412. Box 6 Files 4-10 Dear Miss O’Reilly Thank you so much for your letter of B.C. news. I have had a lot of extra work on account of the war scare, as they took away the Paymaster we had here, & wont give us another. He went to one of the ships

BCARS Add MSS412 Box 6 Files 4-10 26, EGERTON GARDENS . s.w. 17 Janry Dear Miss O’Reilly How kind of you to send me such a lovely Xmas card, with a picture of the “Aria” . Many thanks for it. I can remember the view from your garden as if it was yesterday. I am

BCARS Add MSS412 Box 6 Files 4-10 HOLME LACY, HEREFORD . 9th Janry My dear Miss O’Reilly It is so kind of you to remember me with another calendar, the third I think you have sent me, & I use them daily in the admiralty. Many thanks too for your letter. I received it a