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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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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

said they seemed particularly sore at Sholto not having looked them up & Florence too they had several "rubs" for but I tell you I wasn't letting them "put it over on me" & I stuck up for them both. I notice Aunt Bella is terribly inquisitive & wants to know always about F's affairs.

I have taken in several good shows. Oliphant & I went to the Hippodrome last night, and we saw an excellent show. "A Box of Tricks" Variety entertainment with very good music, needless to say we "dined and wined" well before going

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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