Captain George Berkeley Descriptive List (Ref. PR12)

PR12/

Letter, from Alec Lawrence, to ‘My dear Berkeley’. ‘Here is my copy of the little Browning…’.

1p

46

19 July 1914

Letter from Anne Lawrence, nea r Bath, England, to ‘My dear Mr. Berkeley’. Concerns possible meeting between Alec Lawrence and Berkeley. Mentions a friend, Miss Mabel Dickinson, who is prepared to help the Volunteers, ‘she could command a battalion admirably but Alec thinks there is so much prejudice against militant women that even Joan of Arc herself would be sent back to her family!’.

2pp

47

28 July 1914

Letter, from Anne E. Lawrence, Brockham End, near Bath, England, to ‘Dear Mr. Berkeley’. She sending on Berkeley’s lett er to Alec, who is going to Belfast ‘purely as a patriotic Irishman…to help & not to hinder’. Mentions ‘that Dublin incident… a wretched affair’. Asks whether the ‘grave shadow of war in Europe will steady the Carsonites’.

3pp

48

29 July 1914

Letter, from Alec Lawren ce, 3 King’s Bench Walk, Temple, London E.C., to ‘My dear Berkeley’. He will be arriving in Belfast and will come to the Grand Central Hotel.

2pp

49

29 July 1914

Letter, from Alec Lawrence , 3 King’s Bench Walk, Temple, London E.C., to ‘My dear Berkeley’. He has got a telephone message from his wife at Battalion. She will come with him to Belfast. He is also bringing a young American friend Julian Biddle.

2pp

50

[August] 1914

Letter, from Anne E. Lawrence, Gr and Central Hotel, Belfast, to ‘My dear Mr. Berkeley’. ‘Alick and I are off by the last train to Dublin…’. Thanks Berkeley for

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