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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)NCLAdd/71
TitleLetter from R.L. Simey to Sir Leslie Frederic Scott
Extent1 item
Date1940
DescriptionPhotocopied letter, dated 14 November, in which Simey writes to Sir Leslie [1869-1950; KC, MP, KCMG] about accurate representation of Chamberlain's time at Rugby [School] for any future biography of his life. Simey provided information for Austen Chamberlain's biographer and his brother - 'once Neville's fag' - might be willing to do the same for the latter's biographer. With note in Scott's hand indicating that he replied offering to give Simey's brother a 'sentence or two if asked'

Sir Leslie and Chamberlain had both been pupils at Rugby.
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