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Kennedy, Kate. 1 letter (1941) to Lady Agnes Adams, Inverness, Scotland
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She thanks Lady Adams for sending her a copy of Sir John's book. She expresses pride in the people of England.
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Loring, Theodosia (Thackeray). 5 letters (1940-1942) to Lady Agnes Adams, Southsea, England
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She writes of the damage and destruction of buildings in London. She thanks Lady Adams for the gifts of tea and sugar.
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Hilder, Mary. 1 letter (1941) to Lady Agnes Adams, Maidstone, England
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She works in the sick bay for evacuee children with Dr. Whyte and mentions meeting his wife, a friend of Lady Adams.
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Ashley Cooper, Patricia. 9 letters (1941) to Lady Agnes Adams, Toronto, Canada; Hitchin, England
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Patricia is the daughter of Kathleen and Patrick Ashley Cooper and was presented in 1938. A newspaper photograph of her in her presentation gown is in the file of Kathleen Ashley Cooper. She brings a group of children out of England to safety in Canada and Australia. On her return she stays with Lady Adams in Hollywood for two months and afterwards returns to Canada where she works in an airplane factory. She eventually gets a flight back to England where she enrolls at Oxford to study to be a doctor.
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Adams, Lady Agnes. 1 letter (1921) to Cornelius Van Hemert Engert, London, England
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Lady Adams received a letter from Mr. Engert. She is again entertaining the Freemans, Riebers, Noyes and Father O'Neill.
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John Adams, Philadelphia, letter to Elbridge Gerry :
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Letter to Gerry, recently appointed to a special diplomatic commission to France, in which Adams lists several objections and opinions previously expressed by others to Gerry's appointment. Adams also expresses his wish for peace with France but also his concerns with fidelity to the public and U.S. self-defense; he also discusses the character of General John Marshall. Letter is endorsed by Gerry.
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