KP/AK/2/LYT/C/10 - Letter, Constance Lytton to Annie Kenney, 12/4/1910
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KP/AK/2/LYT/C/10
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Letter, Constance Lytton to Annie Kenney, 12/4/1910
Date/s
12/4/1910
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Lytton, Constance, LadyCreator
Kenney, Annie, 1879-1953Administrative/Biographical history
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This is a reply to an invitation to speak at a Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) fundraiser from Annie Kenney. Lady Constance refuses on account of her ill health following her hunger strike during a prison stay. She was booked to open the Grand Suffrage Bazaar and Exhibition held in St Andrews Halls, Glasgow, 28 – 30 April 1910 and could not undertake any more public appearances due to their strain on her mental and physical recovery.
Transcript provided by Zoe Kelly:
MAIL. KNEBWORTH.G.N.R TELEGRAMS. KNEBWORTH
HOMEWOOD,
KNEBWORTH,
HERTS.
April 12. 1910
Dearest Annie
It is dreadful to have to refuse you especially as I believe to be alongside of you would do me an immense amount of good just now. But my body is still on strike, gets exhausted (& the brain too) with the smallest exertion. I am [Page 2] concentrating my power on the Glasgow Exhibition- I am booked to open it on the 2? Day/. April 28th. The [Dr][&] my people think that a [m]ad idea & I expect I shall have to do it in the face of their contrary advice. If that [answers] –if I do [Page 3] the job creditably & do not break from it, then I shall go on & make other engagements but I daren’t book myself for such a long journey immediately after Glasgow. I have been struggling for a week with an article for Votes. My [Page 4]brain simply won’t work & the vain effort makes me fearfully deprest [depressed] I daren’t undertake [r]eal meeting speeches while like this.
Of course I don’t really feel deprest [depressed]: it is only a passing thing.
Good luck [for] all [your] special weeks.
Your always loving
Sister Conny
Don’t [trouble ] to answer this.
This is a reply to an invitation to speak at a Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) fundraiser from Annie Kenney. Lady Constance refuses on account of her ill health following her hunger strike during a prison stay. She was booked to open the Grand Suffrage Bazaar and Exhibition held in St Andrews Halls, Glasgow, 28 – 30 April 1910 and could not undertake any more public appearances due to their strain on her mental and physical recovery.
Transcript provided by Zoe Kelly:
MAIL. KNEBWORTH.G.N.R TELEGRAMS. KNEBWORTH
HOMEWOOD,
KNEBWORTH,
HERTS.
April 12. 1910
Dearest Annie
It is dreadful to have to refuse you especially as I believe to be alongside of you would do me an immense amount of good just now. But my body is still on strike, gets exhausted (& the brain too) with the smallest exertion. I am [Page 2] concentrating my power on the Glasgow Exhibition- I am booked to open it on the 2? Day/. April 28th. The [Dr][&] my people think that a [m]ad idea & I expect I shall have to do it in the face of their contrary advice. If that [answers] –if I do [Page 3] the job creditably & do not break from it, then I shall go on & make other engagements but I daren’t book myself for such a long journey immediately after Glasgow. I have been struggling for a week with an article for Votes. My [Page 4]brain simply won’t work & the vain effort makes me fearfully deprest [depressed] I daren’t undertake [r]eal meeting speeches while like this.
Of course I don’t really feel deprest [depressed]: it is only a passing thing.
Good luck [for] all [your] special weeks.
Your always loving
Sister Conny
Don’t [trouble ] to answer this.
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KP/AK/2/LYT/C - Correspondence with Lady Constance Lytton
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