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Engert, Cornelius Van Hemert. 1 letter (1930) to Lady Agnes Adams, Nanking, China
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Adams, Lady Agnes. 1 letter (1926) to [Cornelius Van Hemert Engert, Sara] and Roderick, Los Angeles, California
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Lady Agnes hopes they are enjoying their new assignment in Caracas.
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Engert, Cornelius Van Hemert. 1 letter (1929) to Lady Agnes Adams, Caracas, Venezuela
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Mr. Engert writes of his children and where he might school them. He mentions he feels that he and Lady Agnes have many more things in common than they were ever able to explore as they both find they like to read the obituaries in "The Times" and save ones they like.
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Engert, Cornelius Van Hemert. 1 letter (1922) to Lady Agnes Adams, Ganeshkhind, India
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Mr. Engert has been traveling in many interesting places and is now visiting with Sir George Lloyd. Previously he visited Sir Aurel Stein at his camp in Kashmir which only can be reached by climbing on hands and knees up a cliff. He mentions when he was in Kabul, he was able to convince the Imir to allow Lowell Thomas to film his "Empire." A sprig of edelweiss is enclosed.
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Engert, Cornelius Van Hemert. 1 letter (1922) to Lady Agnes Adams, Kabul, Afghanistan
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Mr. Engert was the first American diplomat to visit Kabul where he was the guest of the Amir in one of his "little palaces." He asks Lady Agnes to call him Van.
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Engert, Cornelius Van Hemert. 1 letter (1922) to Lady Agnes Adams, Washington, D.C
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Upon returning to the States he was ordered to Washington. As he was passing through New York he renewed the acquaintance of a woman he had met three years before and they are to be married.. Mr. Engert has just been made First Secretary of Embassy and Assistant to the Chief of the Near Eastern Division of the State Department.
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Engert, Cornelius Van Hemert. 1 letter (1935) to Lady Agnes Adams, Cyprus, Greece
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Mr. Engert sends his condolences to Lady Agnes on the death of her husband, Sir John. He missed the obituary in "The Times" and felt sick at not being a comfort to her at her time of deepest sorrow. Mr. Engert is now assigned to Cairo and is vacationing with his family in the mountains. He mentions his total dislike of the present Minister.
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