Erroll Pilkington Gillespie Letters
Letters from from Erroll Pilkington Gillespie to his family. Learn more.
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C.M.G. Depot
Seaford SX
August 27th 18
My dear Mother
Since I wrote to you last a great event has happened, the old "King of Uganda" has arrived in TOWN, & I was up last week end to see him! Florence was there too! It was simply ripping to see the old buster again, it seemed like centuries since I had last seen him and after all that he has been through, I so relieved to find him looking so well, & just the same old Peach as ever! I was afraid I would find him looking
BC Archives, MS-2685 Box 17 File 3 / OLIVER, William Edgar, 1867 – 1920. Victoria; lawyer. / Erroll P. Gillespie, correspondence outward, 1917 – 1919.