KP/AK/2/LYT/C/5 - Letter, Constance Lytton to Annie Kenney, 23/4/1909
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KP/AK/2/LYT/C/5
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Title
Letter, Constance Lytton to Annie Kenney, 23/4/1909
Date/s
23/4/1909
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1 Letters (MS)
Creator
Lytton, Constance, LadyCreator
Kenney, Annie, 1879-1953Administrative/Biographical history
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Scope and content
Lady Constance writes to Annie (on the same day they'd been planting trees together) to thank her for the “glow and life” she has given her during their recent meeting. Annie’s warm and lively personality seems to have renewed her hope at a time when Lady Constance was feeling mentally drained as a result of her imprisonment in Holloway: “I was so down, so smashed and failure”.
She mentions a car ride she took with Mrs Pethick-Lawrence; and asks Annie’s advice about further action in Hertfordshire and Ireland.
She signs the letter: “Your loving Con”.
Transcript provided by Zoe Kelly:
Fri April 1909 Trewartha
Weston Super Mare
RAIL.KNEBWORTH G.N.R HOMEWOOD
TELEGRAM.KNEBWORTH KNEBWORTH
HERTS
Dearest Annie,
One little line to lay my thanks at your feet for all the glow and life you put into me from your glowing, living self in these few [hours] we have been together.
I was so down, so smashed, and failure –filled on Wednesday night that [Page 2] it was all I could do not to throw up the [Bath] plan. Now I feel mended up-quite different to anything that has been since Holloway, and I think I shall not get so down again.
How splendid you were to listen to, both at the meeting and privately [Page 3] face to face.
Mrs Lawrence and I had a glorious talk in the motor coming here. The air did her good I think and now she is asleep.
I had wanted to ask you and her together about how I should try and tackle [Page 4] Hertfordshire, and perhaps my sister Betty Balfour and I could go to Ireland and do something there. Mrs Lawrence has given me first rate advice about both of these.
Good luck to you always.
Your loving
Con [Constance]
[Insert at the top of Page 4]
I was so deeply moved and pleased by the sympathetic kindness of our dear host and hostess and their splendid zealous `daughter.
She mentions a car ride she took with Mrs Pethick-Lawrence; and asks Annie’s advice about further action in Hertfordshire and Ireland.
She signs the letter: “Your loving Con”.
Transcript provided by Zoe Kelly:
Fri April 1909 Trewartha
Weston Super Mare
RAIL.KNEBWORTH G.N.R HOMEWOOD
TELEGRAM.KNEBWORTH KNEBWORTH
HERTS
Dearest Annie,
One little line to lay my thanks at your feet for all the glow and life you put into me from your glowing, living self in these few [hours] we have been together.
I was so down, so smashed, and failure –filled on Wednesday night that [Page 2] it was all I could do not to throw up the [Bath] plan. Now I feel mended up-quite different to anything that has been since Holloway, and I think I shall not get so down again.
How splendid you were to listen to, both at the meeting and privately [Page 3] face to face.
Mrs Lawrence and I had a glorious talk in the motor coming here. The air did her good I think and now she is asleep.
I had wanted to ask you and her together about how I should try and tackle [Page 4] Hertfordshire, and perhaps my sister Betty Balfour and I could go to Ireland and do something there. Mrs Lawrence has given me first rate advice about both of these.
Good luck to you always.
Your loving
Con [Constance]
[Insert at the top of Page 4]
I was so deeply moved and pleased by the sympathetic kindness of our dear host and hostess and their splendid zealous `daughter.
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KP/AK/2/LYT/C - Correspondence with Lady Constance Lytton
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KP/AK - Annie Kenney