Manuscripts

Adams, Lady Agnes. 1 letter (1935) to Sara Engert, Los Angeles, California

Description: Lady Agnes has heard from Mr. Engert in his new post but tells Sara to let him know in her next letter as he must be too busy to read her letters. She is "serene" about her husband John's passing as he did not suffer and Lady Agnes is much more able to be alone than he would have been.
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.
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Adams, Lady Agnes. 1 letter (1935) to Sara Engert, Los Angeles, California

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Lady Agnes is happy to hear that Sara will not be sending the Engert son to boarding school in England but will continue to keep him with the family.

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Adams, Lady Agnes. 1 letter (1935) to Sara Engert, Los Angeles, California

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Lady Agnes responds to Sara's news of Van's new assignment to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. However she will not be able to join him but will stay with the children in Cairo.

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Adams, Lady Agnes. 1 letter to Sara Engert, Los Angeles

Manuscripts

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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Adams, Lady Agnes. 1 letter (1926) to Cornelius Van Hemert Engert, Berkeley, California

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Lady Agnes happy to hear Mr. Engert and family to be stationed in Chile. Sir John is at Harvard lecturing and Lady Agnes is busy with her own social activities.

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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 (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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Adams, Lady Agnes. 1 letter (1935) to Sara Engert, Los Angeles, California

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