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1991.1016.108.4
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Letter from Cherry Garrard to Dorothy Walker dated 22.03.1924, thanking her for an invitation to the Boat Race and for writing to him after he had fallen off a cliff. Found inserted in the book, The Worst Journey in the World by Cherry - Garrard, Apsley, when acquired by the museum, shelf J6-7 . Part of the Emery Walker Library.
Date
1924-03-22 - 1924-03-22
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20th century
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Letter from Apsley Cherry-Garrard to Miss Walker dated 22nd March 1924
Lamer Park
Wheathampstead
Herts.
Dear Miss Walker,
I am very glad you have come back from America to ask me to the Boatrace: I was afraid you might still be in New York. Thank you very much: and I shall be very glad to come. It was nice of you to write when I fell off a cliff.
Yours very sincerely
Apsley Cherry-Garrard[i].
Saturday March 22. 1924
[Footnote:
[i]Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard (1886 – 1959) was an English Antarctic explorer and a survivor of Scott’s Terra Nova expedition. CAW]
