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The Letters

1. 4th April 1905 The Woolsack

Als 1p. Mounted. (Col Lewis was then A.D.C at Government House, Capetown)

2. 20th February 1911 Hotel du Parc, Vernet-les-Bains

Als 2pp. Mounted. (Lewis was studying German in Berlin)

3. 23rd July 1911

Als 3pp. Mounted. With envelope. (Lewis had just been posted to No 5 Mountain Battery)

4. 11th September 1911 Bateman's

Als 3pp. Mounted. (Lewis was about to sail for India)

5. 8th April 1912 Bateman's

Als 4pp.

6. 7th December 1912 Bateman's

Als 4pp. Mounted. (Lewis in Simla)

7. 9th December 1912 Bateman's

Pcs 2pp. Mounted. With envelope. (to the R.A. Mess at Umballa)

8. 5th December 1913 Bateman's

Als 4pp. Mounted. (Lewis had been on a shoot in Lahoul with Jock Duthie)

9. lst November 1914 Bateman's

Pcs. 2pp. Mounted. (On Lewis's arrival with 5 Mountain Battery from India). A note says See article from the Morning Post with account of his visit to me, and of our visit with Mary to see the wounded from John's Battalion of the 129th Baluchis.

10. lst January 1936 Bateman's

Tls. 1p. (has a poignant invitation to Lewis to visit Bateman's in the Spring - Kipling died on January 18th)

 

 

 

 

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