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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)ACLAdd/253
TitleLetter from Austen Chamberlain to Mrs Boyd Carpenter
Extent1 item
Date1915
DescriptionLetter from Austen Chamberlain to Mrs Boyd Carpenter written from Crowborough, dated May 1 1915. Chamberlain writes to Mrs Boyd Carpenter to inform her that due to his wife's 'bad septic throat which obstinately declines to yield to treatment' they will not be able to dine with her on Tuesday as planned. He goes on to apologise and says that 'Lloyd George has fixed Tuesday for the Budget & we are faced with a situation of great difficulty, so that I cannot absent myself from the debate...'
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