Gardiner MSS 47.13.01

From
Sir Alan H. Gardiner
Date
Place
Cairo
Caption

Letter from Sir Alan H. Gardiner to his wife regarding the health of Lord Carnarvon, page 1.

Material
Ink
Paper
Measurements
19.2 x 14.1 cm (h x w)
Handwritten letter
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                                                               Semiramis Hotel

                                                                          Cairo

 

Teleg.Address:                                                                                                   4 April 23
Semiramis-Cairo

 

Darling Heddie

          Just a line tonight to thank 

you for the lovely letter I received 

yesterday. I hope your gastric catarrh 

is quite quitesic well by now. I 

have had a few ghastly days,

worried to death with old Carnarvon’s 

illness. I have been up with 

them quite a lot, and it has 

got on my nerves. Yesterday he 

was given up for hopeless by one 

of the nurses at least, but Evelyn 

and Lady Carnarvon insisted that 

he would pull through. I have 

been convinced he would from the