HG12/18/114

Letter from Gertrude Longuet Higgins, Hotel Aurora, Bordighera, [Liguria, Italy] to son Henry Hugh Longuet Longuet-Higgins.

5 Feb 1928

From: 1928 To: 1928

Hears that Cecil is in a nursing home for an operation for the treatment of a gland. Hopes she will soon recover. Hopes apples arrived safely. Leving for Rome on 7 February. Will be staying at the Hotel Victoria. Honora bright is staying ther,e so will probably go sight seeing together. Maude is away with friends this weekend to some place beyond Alassio to take part in the opening of a new tennis court. Went to Montecarlo last Wednesday. Announcement of proof of the Will of Hugh's father in The Times 26 Janaury. Hopes Cecil will be well enough to go to Isobel's wedding on 18 February, and that Pat will enjoy being a bridesmaid. Joyce Orlebar was to be married yesterday to Kenneth Hope, who has just been appointed clerk of the peace to the county of Durham - £800 per year.

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Longuet-Higgins, Henry Hugh Longuet,
Longuet-Higgins, Gertrude,
Longuet-Higgins, Gertrude Maude,
Longuet-Higgins, Albinia Cecil,
Bright, Honora,
Orlebar, Joyce,
Hope, Kenneth

family correspondence, Italy, Rome, specific marriages, illness