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Erroll Pilkington Gillespie Letters

Letters from from Erroll Pilkington Gillespie to his family. Learn more.

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BC Archives MS-2685

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15/5/18

Strand Palace Hotel, Strand, London, W.C.2 The Strand Hotel Ltd. Telegrams: "Luxury, Rand, London." Code: Western Union

The Strand Hotel Limited. Proprietors of Strand Palace Hotel, Regent Palace Hotel

shaving soap stolen from my bag, goodness knows what else I may discover, I think all my clothes have escaped though, which is lucky.

Well Mother I think I had better take pity on the Censor & wind this letter up, as I seem to have written a book! How he will curse if he has to read it all. I still have quite a bit to say, in fact, I seem to be properly wound up!

I owe Father a letter, so will

BC Archives, MS-2685 Box 17 File 3 / OLIVER, William Edgar, 1867 – 1920. Victoria; lawyer. / Erroll P. Gillespie, correspondence outward, 1917 – 1919.

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