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Alma Russell Letters

Letters of British Columbia men on active service with Canadian and British Expeditionary Forces, 1914-1918. Learn more.

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BC Archives MS-1901

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Bath Hotel 35, Strand, W.C. (Four Doors from Charing Cross Station)

Telephone: No. 9685 City Mrs. Cain, Proprietress.

London, April 12th 1916

My dear Miss Russell, -

You are no doubt surprised to see the above address but as I am on leave it is easily accounted for. Kindly excuse the terrible scrawl but a pen is rather strange after using pencil for so long.

I have just returned from Liverpool and Birkenhead

BC Archives, MS-1901 Box 1 File 15 / RUSSELL, Alma M., 1873-1964. Victoria; librarian. / Letters from Trooper Joseph Shires, 1915-1916.

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