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Reference code
GB 249 T-GED/9/1674
Title
Letter from Mabel C. Whitson, Edinburgh, to Patrick Geddes
Date(s)
- 6 December 1928 (Creation)
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5 ff.
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Scope and content
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Letter thanking Geddes for his congratulations on her husband's election as Lord Provost of Edinburgh. Describes election. States that someone had commented that it was a great day for the Outlook Tower. Reference to helpers at Outlook Tower: Miss MacDonald and Constance Wyer. Gives details of a busy social life: lecture by J. Arthur Thomson; meeting of Drama Festival Group at Outlook Tower; dining with Frank and Norah Mears; news of Whitson children. Hopes that Lillian Geddes has fully recovered.
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Enclosed, a photograph of Thomas B. Whitson.
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Open
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Language of material
- English