| Description | Letter written from Edgbaston, dated 13 September, giving news of wartime in Brimingham, and a proposal to give her a pair of field-glasses (in connection with Lord Robert's appeal). The letter also discusses preparations at Harborne Hall to house Belgian refugees, and Alice Beale's plans to accommodate Miss Sidgwick and some other ladies.
[Alice Beal, daughter of Birmingham manufacturer Timothy Kenrick, was the wife of Charles Gabriel Beale, vice-chancellor of Birmingham University from 1900-1912.] |