Monday, October 18, 1915

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
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Venetia Stanley

Location unknown.

Official Register

1915-10-18

Top News

Daily Edition

The short story 'The Little Governess' by Katherine Mansfield was published in the literary magazine Signature.

Cabinet Council

NO SESSION
No Minutes

Parliament

RECESS
Adjourned

Witness Observations

Margot Asquith
Margot Asquith

"I forgot to say I had been sent for by Stamfordham in the morning... Bongie met me 10 to 5 and told me Henry had been ‘taken worse’ in the middle of the cabinet..."

Maurice Hankey
Maurice Hankey

"Lunched again at 10 Downing Street. P.M. seemed all right, but in afternoon at the Cabinet at House of Commons he was taken ill and had to adjourn..."

Cynthia Asquith
Cynthia Asquith

"Beb and I dined at Downing Street. Family party... Raymond with a moustache. He is supposed to be going out on Wednesday..."