Sunday, February 22, 1914

Cloudy

Correspondence (0)

Gap in Correspondence

No surviving record of correspondence for this date. The Archive continues through witness accounts and official records.

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H.H. Asquith
London
HIS DAYSpent Sunday in London due to official engagements the previous night. Likely wrote to Venetia Stanley about recent events. Reflected on the Speaker’s Dinner and the Levée of February 21. Recalled a late-night bridge game at Edwin Montagu’s house with a group of young guests
Venetia Stanley
Wales
HER DAYTravelling to Pembrokeshire. Preparing for the ship launching ceremony

Official Register

1914-02-22

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A severe storm in Switzerland caused a train on the Lötschberg railway to be partly derailed by wind upon emerging from a tunnel.. Survivors of the Fethard lifeboat disaster off the Wexford coast were rescued after being stranded for sixty hours.

Cabinet Council

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Parliament

RECESS
Adjourned