| Description | Letter, dated 29 January, in which Chamberlain, 37 Eaton Square [London], writes to Miss Barling about her father's illness. He asks for news and for Edith to pass on his regret at his friend's illness and his hopes for a speedy recovery.
Edith's father, Sir Harry Gilbert Barling (1855-1940), was Vice- and later Pro-, Chancellor of Birmingham University, 1913-1933. |