Record

Document Reference	La Ac 2/8/7
Title	Letter from Lydia Lawrence, Lynn Croft, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire to her sister Lettice Berry, Low Hill, 49 Roxborough Park, Harrow-on-the-Hill, London; 18 May 1910
Date	18 May 1910
Extent	2 ff (plus envelope)
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Addresses her as 'My dear Sister'; apologises for not writing sooner; discusses her journey home after visiting Lettice in Harrow, and comments that Eastwood 'looks rather a dirty mean place after Harrow'; sends thanks from her daugters Ada and Emily for the gifts; reports on various family news including her son Bert spending time with Jessie [Chambers]; asks after her son son Douglas as well as other friends and family members; signed 'your loving sister Liddie'. La Ac 2/8/6/2 is an envelope addressed to 'Mrs J.C. Berry, Low Hill, 49 Roxborough Park, Harrow-on-the-Hill, London'; contains a red one penny stamp; postmarked Eastwood MY 19 [19]10.
Term	family news
Term	gifts, thanks for
Physical Description	Written in dark ink on both sides of a single sheet of plain paper folded to form two folios
Condition	Worn along fold lines

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA386	Lawrence; Lydia (1852-1910); Mrs; née Beardsall; mother of D.H. Lawrence	1852-1910
NA74615	Berry; Lettice Ada (1857-1938); née Beardsall; maternal aunt of D.H. Lawrence	1857-1938
NA77486	Berry?; Ivy (fl 1918); daughter of John and Lettice Berry?; D.H. Lawrence's cousin	fl 1918
NA77485	Berry; Douglas (fl 1918); son of John and Lettice Berry; D.H. Lawrence's cousin	fl 1918
NA42	Lawrence; D.H. (1885-1930); David Herbert; writer	1885-1930
NA382	King; Emily Una (1882-1962); Mrs; née Lawrence; known as 'Pamela'; married Samuel King 1904; sister of D.H. Lawrence	1882-1962
NA368	Clarke; Ada (1887-1948); Mrs; married W.E. Clarke 1913; sister of D.H. Lawrence	1887-1948
NA367	Chambers; Jessie (1887-1944); childhood friend of D.H. Lawrence; known as 'Muriel'; married John R. Wood 1915	1887-1944