| Description | Letter written from Oxford, dated 16 August, expressing thanks for a letter received, and her 'understanding of how much is gone with Richard'. Ellen gives general news about life since Richard's loss, and her current location in Birmingham, owing to the work of Hume [her husband].
[Dame Ellen Frances Pinset [nee Parker] (1866–1949), promoter of mental health services, was married to Hume Chancellor Pinsent in 1888. They had three children, a daughter, Hester Agnes, and two sons, one of whom was killed on active service in 1915 and the other in a flying accident in 1918.] |
| Publication Note | R. R. Thomas, ‘Pinsent , Dame Ellen Frances (1866–1949)’, rev. Hugh Series, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35531, accessed 28 Aug 2013] |