Incomplete letter from H.M. White [Henrietta Margaret White] [to William Robinson]
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Title
Incomplete letter from H.M. White [Henrietta Margaret White] [to William Robinson]
Record type
Archive
Original Reference
WRO/2/207
Date
c.1926-1932
Scope & content
Written from Alexandra College, Dublin, [Ireland]. Manuscript. Page one missing
[…] Robinson revolutionised gardening; she knew Mrs Rowan Hamilton, who was interested in the College and in White; the world seems empty of friends, which is the natural experience of old age; she asks if Robinson could pay them a visit, as they have been developing there and she would like to show him how, ‘in the gardening line’; she sends kind remembrances to Miss Gilpin [Mary Gilpin]
Undated [c.1926-1932; White refers to old age and was 70 in 1926; she was principal of Alexandra College from 1890-1932]. Written from Alexandra College, Dublin, [Ireland]. Manuscript. Page one missing
[…] Robinson revolutionised gardening; she knew Mrs Rowan Hamilton, who was interested in the College and in White; the world seems empty of friends, which is the natural experience of old age; she asks if Robinson could pay them a visit, as they have been developing there and she would like to show him how, ‘in the gardening line’; she sends kind remembrances to Miss Gilpin [Mary Gilpin]
Undated [c.1926-1932; White refers to old age and was 70 in 1926; she was principal of Alexandra College from 1890-1932]