Monday, December 25, 1916
Cloudy
Correspondence (0)
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No surviving record of correspondence for this date. The Archive continues through witness accounts and official records.
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Wiltshire
HIS DAYSpending Christmas at Easton Grey with family
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Venetia Stanley
Location unknown.
Official Register
1916-12-25Top News
Daily Edition
The last group of Irish prisoners involved in the Easter Rising were released in Dublin.
Cabinet Council
NO SESSION
No Minutes
Parliament
RECESS
Adjourned
Witness Observations
Lord Riddell
"Lunched and spent afternoon with L. G. at Walton Heath. I told him that Asquith had offered Donald of the Daily Chronicle a knighthood... L. G. (laughing heartily): Well, surely you don't object."
Cynthia Asquith
"Woke up very early to have the fun of seeing Michael open his stocking. ... The Allens came to dinner again. Mamma convulsed us all by suddenly saying, ‘Mr Allen, I hope you are eating nuts’."