Correspondence with members of royal household, mainly about death of Edward VII

Date:
1907-1910
Reference:
PP/BED/D.1/1
Part of:
Bertrand Edward Dawson, Viscount Dawson of Penn (1864-1945)
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Letter to Lord Knollys, 21 Jul 1907 about appointment as a Royal Physician
3 letters from Lady Laking, May 1910
Note by Dawson about the omission of his name from the formal report on the King's illness and the misapprehension that he himself was unwell, with rough draft of letter from Lady Dawson to Lady Laking, and carbon of his own letter to Sir Francis Laking, 13 May 1910
Carbon of his letter to Princess Victoria, 16 May 1910
Letter to Sir Francis Laking, 16 May 1910
Letter from Sir Dighton Probyn, conveying cheque and gratitude of Queen Alexandra, 30 Jun 1920, with carbon of Dawson's reply
Dawson's own account of the death of Edward VII - "Page 1a was dictated in August 1910 (11th August), but pages 1 to 7 were dictated by me the day after the King's [death], with the details of his illness full in my memory"

Publication/Creation

1907-1910

Physical description

1 file

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