Tuesday, June 8, 1915

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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 DAYLondon. Lunch at Downing Street with Margot, Elizabeth, Mrs Bridges. House of Commons
Venetia Stanley
Franceⓘ
HER DAYI found it [your letter] on coming in from rather a dreary walk along the beach. Wrote to Edwin Montagu

Official Register

1915-06-08

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Cabinet Council

NO SESSION
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Parliament

IN SESSION

>>Topics: British Officers In Germany, Post Office Alien Enemy Depositors, Sick Soldiers On Furlough, Coal Prices, Special Constables, Scottish Municipal Sewers Income Tax

Witness Observations

Margot Asquith
Margot Asquith

"We dined with Ld Charles Montagu. I sat between my host and Admiral Sir Hedworth Lambton. ... Charlie and [I] played bridge..."

Venetia Stanley
Venetia Stanley

"My darlingest your letter came very quickly... Thank you again for further stores... Lady Norman gave me a knowing leer about you..."

Lord Riddell
Lord Riddell

"Brade seems very anxious regarding the situation created by the formation of the new Munitions Department. Evidently there is great difficulty in defining its relations with the War Office."

Cynthia Asquith
Cynthia Asquith

"Motored to Downing Street from Cadogan Square for lunch. Present —P.M., very late from Cabinet, Margot, Elizabeth... P.M. looking quite restored... Everyone very full of the glorious exploit of Lieutenant Warneford..."