Saturday, June 26, 1915

Rain

Correspondence (0)

Gap in Correspondence

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

Archive Silence
H.H. Asquith
London
HIS DAYHosting a lunch at 10 Downing Street attended by Maurice Hankey and the American newspaper proprietor Robert McCormick. Motoring in the late afternoon (around 5:30 p.m.) to his country home, The Wharf, accompanied by his son Herbert ('Beb') and daughter-in-law Cynthia (who dropped him off en route to Littlehampton); Cynthia noted he was 'in very good form'
Venetia Stanley
France

Official Register

1915-06-26

Top News

Daily Edition

P. G. Wodehouse's serialized novel Something Fresh began publishing, introducing Lord Emsworth.

Cabinet Council

NO SESSION
No Minutes

Parliament

RECESS
Adjourned

Witness Observations

Lord Riddell
Lord Riddell

"L. G. told us that Jane Addams... had called upon him. ... She sent an account of her visits... to Scott of the Manchester Guardian..."

Maurice Hankey
Maurice Hankey

"Sent in my big paper on policy. ... Lunched at 10 Downing Street to meet an American newspaper proprietor, McCormick by name..."