BCARS A1E Or3 C421 Esquimalt H.M.S. WARSPITE Dear Mrs. O’Reilly Sir Robert Arbuthnot & I want to have a small luncheon party on Thursday next; if they would all like to come, which I very much hope they will, can Mr. Jack bring Miss O’Reilly and Miss Cornwall down to the boat at Foster’s Pier? […]
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BCARS A1E Or3 C421 Mrs. O’Reilly Point Ellice Victoria, B.C. H.M.S. WARSPITE Dear Mrs. O’Reilly When you kindly asked me last night to dine with you on Saturday, I could not give a decided answer till I had seen Commander Jones. I find I am free for Saturday evening, so have much pleasure in accepting
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BCARS A1E Or3 C421 Esquimalt H.M.S. WARSPITE Dear Mrs. O’Reilly Thank you for your kind invitation; I’m sorry I cannot come Friday, we are entertaining the Admiral that evening. I dont see my way to being on shore in the evening until Tuesday next, will that day suit you? If so, I shall be most
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BCARS A1E Or3 C421 [envelope] Jack O’Reilly Esqre Point Ellice H.M.S. WARSPITE Dear Jack I said you Virgil & hope it may be useful, please give this other book to your sister. Wishing you success in you exam Yours Harry Stanhope Thursday This collection of letters has been digitized from an earlier transcription project and
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BCARS A1E Or3 C421 [envelope] Mrs. O’Reilly Point Ellice Victoria, B.C. H.M.S. WARSPITE Dear Mrs. O’Reilly I wrote a note to you yesterday offering myself for Tuesday next, forgetting that I have to dine at Government House that night. Can I say Monday instead? Please accept my apologies for being so stupid. Believe me. Yours
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BCARS A1E Or3 Or32.2 My dear old Jack I wonder if you have been having good sport & enjoying yourself, & hope you are having fine weather, it is simply pouring with rain here, & has been wet since Tuesday, it must stop soon I think. Carry Cornwall stayed here for ten days & it
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