Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
She works with the Salvation Army and helps the fire brigade. She tells a story about a bombed slum area with only a piano standing and a worker playing jazzy tunes.
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She sends thanks for the cheque for a fund called "Los Angeles Fund for Bombed-out Civilians."
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She wants Lady Agnes to send her an American-made button which says "To Hell with Hitler." Her father, Reverend Sir W. Robertson Nicoll, was Sir John's greatest friend. She is keeping a war diary for her descendants.
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Lady Agnes discusses what names they should address each other. She prefers to call him Van and is happy that he calls her by her initials A.A.A. She is impressed that Van's last letter to her was written on the Amir's letterhead.
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Mrs. Northwood was Lady Adams' friend's charwoman. She informs Lady Agnes of the burning of her former home in London.
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Lady Agnes writes she often reads of Mr. Engert in newspaper accounts and even saw him in a film as he attended the coronation of the Emperor of Ethiopia. Lady Agnes is moving to the Hollywood Hotel as the Canterbury Inn is being torn down.
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