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Signed by candidates: Henry Babington Smith: Grace M. Macaulay (née Conybeare): Edith Oldham: Margaret Smith; Ada Currey; H. Gardiner; George Edward Smith; Mary Susan Duff (née Smith); Kathatine Diana Ellis; Jane A. H. Ellis; Agnes J. Gardiner; Bertha Ellis; Margaret F. Ellis.

With additional note from her mother Mary Parker to James Parker, 11 Oct 1836.

18 Mansfield Street, Portland Place, W.—Refers to Montagu's apparent annoyance at something said by Violet. Invites him to come again.

(Dated Tuesday. Montagu's reply is B1/9.)

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18 Mansfield Street, Portland Place, W.
Tuesday.

My dear Mr Montagu

I dont know whether your annoyance with Violets repetition was entirely simulated so as to see what I should say. Was it? This is what I do say that what she said to me couldnt possibly have mattered in the least and was only passed on to you by me so as to give you a momentary sensation of discomfort if you had a guilty conscience, which I suspect you must have had, also that in practise† she really never repeats unpleasant things that have been said about one. It wont matter much if you do tax her only it wont make a very amusing conversation. I wish I could have got Winston as well as his wife to lunch. Come again one day, {1} any one except Saturday or Monday.

Yrs very sincerely
Venetia Stanley

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{1} ‘day’ interlined above a caret. The caret is placed after the comma, but the word belongs before it.

† Sic.

(Copy of A2/18/1, cut from a larger document.)

Refers to A3/14/5-7. He does not wish Reading to think that he wished to suggest sending for Gandhi.

(Typed, with handwritten alterations. Not sent.)

India Office, London, S.W.1.—Sends, for Mr [Austen] Chamberlain’s information, a copy of a telegram from the Viceroy to Mr Montagu.

(Typed, with handwritten alterations. Used for transmission.)

(Official.) Gandhi was arrested on the 10th.

(Mechanical copy of typed original.)

The Grove, Watford. Is unwilling to divulge the nature of the tie between candidates for headship.

(Dated at Tokyo.)

(Typed draft of an article for the 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.)