Erroll Pilkington Gillespie Letters
Letters from from Erroll Pilkington Gillespie to his family. Learn more.
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larger than the Titanic.
I had a fairly good time in Malta except for the dose of malaria; it's very interesting though one soon tires of it. The weather was rather trying, very sultry and it made you feel clammy all day.
I lunched with Lord Methuen one day out at San Antonio; he is a very decent man and Lady Methuen seemed charming too. They have a splendid place out there, I should say palace as he is the Governor. Orange groves galore and palm trees and various tropical plants etc. I was hustled off from Malta so quickly
BC Archives, MS-2685 Box 17 File 2 OLIVER, William Edgar, 1867-1920. Victoria; lawyer. Erroll P. Gillespie, correspondence outward 1915-1917.