| Content Description | Comments on the terrible the airship diaster [British airship R.101 crashed in Beauvais, France on 5 Oct. 1930, 48 people were killed]. She attended the service at Westminster Abbey. Is sad that the weather is getting colder and British summertime has ended.
Has heard that Baldwin has resigned but doesn't know whether it is true [probably referring to Stanley Baldwin, leader of the Conservative Party at this time]. Discussion of the 1930 Paddington South by-election. Thinks that Neville Chamberlain's letter to the Paddington South candidate [Sir Herbert Lidiard concerning his stand on Empire Free Trade].
Ga 2 E 1347/2: Envelope addressed to Viscount Galway, The Mantles, Bawtry, Yorkshire. Postmarked London 6 Oct. 1930. |