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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)OJL/1/40
TitleSir Frank R. Benson
Extent2 items
Date[Early 20th century]
DescriptionCorrespondence with Sir Frank R. Benson [1858-1939, actor and theatre manager].

/1 Letter from Frank R. Benson to Oliver Lodge, written from the Garrick Club, dated 29 May [19--]. Letter of condolence [on the death of Lodge's son, Raymond?] in which Benson writes that he has had 'somewhat similar sorrows' [Benson's son Eric was killed in action in September 1916].

/2 Letter from Frank R. Benson to Oliver Lodge, written from the Grand Theatre, Leeds, dated 1 November 1904. Benson thanks Lodge for his helpful utterances at the Church Congress.
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