COLL VP 02 05
Reference code
COLL VP 02 05
Title
Letters from Charles James Rowlatt
Level
File
Date
1914-1918
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13 items
Content description
Letters from Charles James Rowlatt
/1 Cannot manage to meet; in training as a reserve nd
/2 Returned [to University College, Oxford] the day before; people seen and letters received, 16 January 1914
/3 Glad Lambart is in the Greek play; cannot see him for breakfast because of rowing training; relationship with Myles, [2 Feb 1914]
/4 Stiff from playing rugger; complains of childish atmosphere of the college and not working hard, [4 March 1914]
/5 Could not come to Eton because it took two days to drive from Cornwall to Oxford though hopes to come from Henley; has seen poem on fireworks which Lambart recommended; intends to go out sketching, 24 June 1914
/6 Apologises for not coming to Cambridge; gloom at war; agrees it is 'a got-up job by the German Emperor'; has volunteered, [13 August 1914]
/7 Oxford better than expected; recalls enjoyable [Corps] camp at Borden (where Lambart is stationed), [22 Oct 1914]
/8 Alteration in leave arrangements; billets not as satisfactory as camp for training; senior officers including Sir Foster Cunliffe arriving slowly; played the Field Game at Eton last weekend, 18 Dec 1914
/9 Cannot obtain Company bicycle to come over but invites Lambart over; other Old Etonians seen; folly of war, [1 July 1915]
/10 About to go to trenches; envies Lambart his visit to Eton and King's and the services; people met and correspondents, [13 Dec 1915]
/11 -13 empty envelopes 1914-1918
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