(Untitled), 22 Feb 1910

Item

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/2/6

Scope and Contents

Letter from Sir Francis Knollys [Private Secretary to King Edward VII] (Buckingham Palace) to WSC thanking him on behalf of the King for his House of Commons letter and including the King's observation that "it is difficult to believe that the [Irish] nationalists would be so foolish as to turn out a government from whom they have almost certain expectations." Knollys adds that he has been asked by Lord Esher [earlier Reginald Brett] to send a copy of one of WSC's predecessor's [Lord Gladstone] House of Commons letters, and encloses an example [not present]. Signed manuscript.

Dates

Creation: 22 Feb 1910

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