Condolence letters received on the death of Lilias Trotter
Condolence letters sent in August and Sept 1928 to Mrs Reba Brading, secretary to the Home Council (and others): 1. Alice McIlroy describing the last moments; 2-3. A.E.Theobald, Sudbury; 4. Alice Kemp in Oban, which suggests HMP [H. M. Procter] is Helen Freeman's niece; 5. Edith Bullen, Brighton; 6....
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AWM/AMB, Box 16 |
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| Date(s) of creation: |
1928 |
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File |
| Format: | Archive |
| Order number: |
AWM/AMB, Box 16 |
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| Summary: |
Condolence letters sent in August and Sept 1928 to Mrs Reba Brading, secretary to the Home Council (and others):
1. Alice McIlroy describing the last moments;
2-3. A.E.Theobald, Sudbury;
4. Alice Kemp in Oban, which suggests HMP [H. M. Procter] is Helen Freeman's niece;
5. Edith Bullen, Brighton;
6. C.J. Firmin, Eastbourne;
7. Nellie Gulland, London W1;
8. Council member Northcote Deck, Highbury New Park, N5;
9. M.J. Hamilton on behalf of her husband, Bath;
10. Margaret, who visited Dar Naama and met Lilias Trotter, Queen's Gate, SW7;
11. Elsie Thorpe [five years in Algiers], on Church Missionary Society headed paper;
12. J. S. Tetley [former member], Sidmouth;
13. (letter in French) from the Pastor of the Eglise Evangélique Reformée de Brighton Hove;
14-15. Rev Edwin W. Moore, Crowborough, former minister of Brunswick Chapel in Brunswick St, of which Lilias Trotter was a member before she went to Algiers (2 letters);
16. S.E. Howe, Baugy sur Clarens, France - speaks of the close friendship between Lilias Trotter and Helen Freeman;
17. Charles Inwood, Hove, writes 'she was the most unique, gifted, saintly personality I ever met in the mission field'...'her all was on the altar';
18-19. Dora Welch, Shoreham by Sea, mentioning her sister Emily [Smith] who also writes (2 letters);
20. Gundred Beck, a niece, Fittleworth, Sussex;
21. J. L. Oliver, Pevensey Bay [Home Council member];
22. Fanny K. Currie, Guildford;
23. Sascha Perkin, Ealing;
24. Emily M. Newton, Switzerland, mentioning the stay she and Isabelle had at Dar Naama the previous winter;
25. H.M. Procter, Oban;
26. Edith L. Briggs;
27. Mary May, Cheybres sur Vevey, with Emily Newton, Isabelle and Louise;
28. J. Wright, Addiscombe Vicarage, Croydon;
29. Adeline, S. Croydon;
30. Lucie M. Lidgett, Blackheath, who with her brother knew Lilias Trotter first as an artist;
31. E. May Ridley, Bournemouth;
32. S. Pleasant Hurst, Switzerland, who writes, 'She always seemed to live in heaven';
33. Emily Smilt (?), Shoreham-by-Sea;
34. Winnie and Gherni (?), Oxford; |
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34 items |
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Open |
| Language: | English French |
| Format: | Archive |