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RefNoACS/1/2/2/516
AltRefNo563
LevelItem
TitleLetter from [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, to Alice [Campbell Swinton]
CreatorSwinton; Alan Archibald Campbell (1863-1930); British electrical engineer
Date17 June 1927
DescriptionAdvises on her wireless apparatus, stating that everything specified is included and that the man from Stirling will be more than capable of assisting her. Encloses a paragraph and portraits of Edith and Sacheverell [Reresby] Sitwell, with an appreciation of them by Arnold Bennett, from yesterday's Evening Standard [enclosures not present]. Informs he has been having a controversy in the Times with the Vicar of Stratford on Avon, where they would not let him see Shakespeare's tomb on Wednesday, though he called after the morning service was over. Further informs that he asked Rudyard Kipling what he thought of the Sitwellian poetry, who said he never read anu.
Extent1p
FormatTypescript
PhysicalDescriptionCarbon
AccessStatusOpen
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CodePersonNameDates
NA8285Swinton; Alan Archibald Campbell (1863 - 1930); electrical engineer1863 - 1930
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