Manuscripts

Engert, Cornelius Van Hemert. 1 letter (1922) to Lady Agnes Adams, Ganeshkhind, India

Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1929-1944.
Call number: mssAdams
Creator: Adams (1869-1942)(Opens in new tab)
Additional description: Correspondents include John William Adamson and Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell.
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. R. A. Milikan, June 29, 1946.; Gift of Roderick Engert, 1993-2000.
Associated people: Adamson, John William, (1857-1947.); Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (1866-1948.)
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Engert, Cornelius Van Hemert. 1 letter (1922) to Lady Agnes Adams, Kabul, Afghanistan
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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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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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Adams, Lady Agnes. 1 letter (1922) to Cornelius Van Hemert Engert, London, England
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Lady Agnes hopes to see Mr. Engert in London on his way to U.S. She comments she is dismayed by their mutual friends, the Freeman's pro-German opinions.
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Adams, Lady Agnes. 1 letter (1911) to Cornelius Van Hemert Engert, London, England
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An invitation to lunch from Lady Agnes to her husband, Sir John's, student Mr. Engert.
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Adams, Lady Agnes. 1 letter (1920) to Cornelius Van Hemert Engert, London, England
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Lady Agnes asks Mr. Engert to call on Sydney Armitage-Smith in Persia. Lady Ag-i1es going to France with Sir John.
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