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The Letters of Gertrude Bell (Volume 1). Title: The Letters of Gertrude Bell (Volume 1) (1. Author: Gertrude Bell. A Project Gutenberg of Australia e. Book *. e. Book No.: 0. Language: English.
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TO GERTRUDE'S FATHERPREFATORY NOTEIn the letters contained in this book there will be found many Eastern. Arabic. The Arabic alphabet has characters. Arab language has. We have therefore in. English have become. Koran,' 'kavass,' etc.
But even these words (there. I take these two as an example) which have almost. English language are now spelt differently by. Quran'. and 'qawas'- -which latter form is I believe in accordance with the. Bagdad. Gertrude.
Arabic or in Turkish. These variations. It is now everywhere, even when. Baghdad' and it ought to have been so. The same applies to the name 'Teheran' which is now. Tehran' but of which I have preserved the former spelling.
Hogatth has been good enough to read the preceding pages of. Prefatory Note, and to give them his sanction. He adds the following. Hogarth, Elizabeth Robins, and Major General Sir. Percy Cox, who has had the kindness to read and correct many of the. Proofs. Marguerite Harrison, Hon.
Anthony Henley, The Dowager Countess of Jersey, Mary Countess of. Lovelace, Hon. Harold.
Nicolson, Sir William Ramsay, Mr. Reeves, Miss Flora Russell, Lady. Sheffield, Mr. Sydney Spencer, Lady Spring Rice. Colonel E. Also for clerical help given me by Mrs. Durham, the residence of her grandfather, Isaac Lowthian Bell. F. R. S., afterwards Sir Lowthian Bell, Bart.
Sir Lowthian, ironmaster and. Durham, was a distinguished man of. His wife was Margaret Pattinson, of Alston in Cumberland. Hugh Lee Pattinson, F. R. S. Gertrude's father, now Sir Hugh.
Bell, was Sir Lowthian's eldest son; her mother was Mary Shield, daughter. John Shield, of Newcastle- on- Tyne. Gertrude therefore had the.
Northumbrian and Cumbrian forbears. Those letters, varied, witty. It was fortunate for the recipients that the act of writing, the. Gertrude. than to remember and record all that the pen set down. She was able at. the close of a day of exciting travel to toss a complete account of it.
And for many years she kept a diary as well. Then the time came. From 1. 91. 9 onwards the confidential. Besides these home letters. But the letters to her family. Short. extracts from a few outside letters to some of her intimate friends.
The earlier of these letters, written when. They foreshadow the pictures given in her subsequent family. Bagdad. Letters written when she was twenty show. Oxford with one of the most. Firsts of her year she threw herself with the greatest zest.
London parties; making. And when she. was wandering far afield (her wanderings began very early- -she went to. Roumania when she was twenty- two and to Persia when she was twenty- three). But the letters here published, from the time.
But her letters. show how unbreakable to the last was the bond between her and her home. The abiding influence in.
Gertrude's life from the time she was a little child was her relation to. Her devotion to him, her whole- hearted admiration, the close.
CHAPTER I1. 87. 4- 1. CHILDHOOD- OXFORD- LONDON. It is addressed to me, at a time when she was not yet my. She has been scampering all.
Cilla says. I had a great Chase all over the hall. Papa. She bit and made one. During breakfast she hissed at Kitty Scott.
As Auntie Ada. let Mopsa go down she hissed at Kitty and hunted her round to my side of. Please Papa says will you ask Auntie Florence if she will. I gave Mopsa your message and she sends. I forgot to say Kitty was very frightened. I send you my love.
Granmama and Auntie Florence. His unmarried. sister, Ada Bell, was then living with them. She was a child of. Full of daring, she used to.
She used to alight on her feet, he. Or she would lead a climbing expedition on to the top of.
Maurice was certain to go through the panes while. Gertrude clambered down outside them in safety to the bottom. I. have found a diary of hers when she was eleven. It was an imposing. Christmas present in 1.
I have. left her own spelling. Sunday- -we played in liberry morning. Lessons went off rather lazily.
We went. into the gardin. The lessons went. The lessons themselves were good. The pigion was brought into our room it drank some milk Maurice. So we went into the cuboard. I read all. the morning. I read all the afternoon.
Taught Maurice geography and read. Went to bed tired. We now have out some yellow crocus and primroses snodrops. Primroses and snodrops in my garden. The record, the celebrations. Green's history before breakfast, and devouring every book she. It was a quarter to seven.
Then I hid my face and he got out his presents. He gave me. scales a fireplace with pans kitchen furniture. Then I found under my. When we were ready we went into.
Mother's room and there I found a hopping toad from Auntie Bessie dinner. Mother, watering can from Papa.
Then we went downstairs to. Mother and Maurice and I cooked a dinner because it was wet. We. had soup fish mince crockets Puding, cheese and butter and desert. She always wrote 'siezed,' 'ekcercise,' 'exhorbitant.'. Sometimes she wrote 'priviledge.'. The cooking lessons referred to in the diary and sometimes in the early.
She never excelled in this. There were periodical onslaughts Of grief when. Then after their father's second marriage. Lascelles boys came into the circle as intimates and cousins, the. Mary spoken of in the letters as Auntie Mary, wife of.
Sir Frank Lascelles. She was a good deal younger than her two brothers and.
Gertrude, but as she grew up she was always one of Gertrude's chosen. She married Cecil Spring Rice in 1. Gertrude lived at first at 9. Sloane Street with. Lady Olliffe, who took her and Maurice to her heart as if they. Cramb, a. distinguished and inspiring teacher. Gertrude's intelligence and aptitude.
Oxford and go in for the History School. The time had not yet come. University, and. it was with some qualms that we consented.
But the result justified our. Gertrude went to Lady Margaret Hall, in 1.
June 1. 88. 8 just before she was twenty, and. First Class in. Modern History. Courtney, who, in a delightful article contributed to the North. American Review, entitled . Gertrude Lowthian Bell, the most brilliant student we ever had. Lady Margaret Hall, or indeed I think at any of the women's colleges. I need only recall the bright promise of her college days, when.
She had a. most engaging way of saying 'Well you know, my father says so and so'. Yet all the. time she put in seven hours of work, and at the end of two years she won. First Class in the School of Modern History as has ever. Oxford. Courtney who had herself taken a first class. Moral Philosophy) the same year as Gertrude, writes as follows in the.
Brown Book', which is the organ of Lady Margaret Hall. History School appearing in different clothes every day. The parents of. the candidates were admitted to the 'viva voce' part of the examination.
I have a vivid picture in my memory of Gertrude, showing no trace of. She was, I have since been told.
Oxford to wear brown shoes, of which she. Arthur Hassall of Christchurch, Oxford, who knew her well, records. Gertrude's 'viva voce.' I quote from his. Gardiner, the famous historian of the times of James I. Charles I, began to 'viva voce' Miss Bell. She replied to his first. I am afraid I must differ from your estimate of Charles I.'.
This so horrified Professor Gardiner that he at once asked the examiner. I think it was Mr. Wakeman) to continue the. Arthur Hassall also writes: . My sister- Sir Frank Lascelles being. Minister- -at Bucharest- -begged me to send Gertrude to stay. Oxford, opining that.
Society might be a help for Gertrude . The effect however on Gertrude's . By some mischance. Bucharest seems to have been preserved, but we.
From Bucharest she returned to London, from London she Went. Redcar, enjoying herself everywhere. At Redcar she shouldered the. Clarence, Often mentioned, being Bell Bros. Her letters often recount what she was doing with. Hugo by this time had gone to. Some letters are here given that she wrote between 1.
England in one of our two homes either in London. Redcar, where we lived until. These letters are mostly about every day happenings, always lifted. Gertrude's youthful zest. Some of. these early letters are to her parents, others of which fragmentary.
Flora Russell who remained her intimate friend. Flora was the elder daughter of Lord and Lady Arthur.
Russell, who lived in Audley Square. The Audley Square circle, the house. Gertrude, as. for many others, a cherished and congenial surrounding. The little girls spent all day with Hunt . They came home at eight, radiant.
Molly says he was a. We. suppose he must be a market gardener. Then I paid some. Papa at 4: 3. 5. Molly and I have since been. It is so heavenly here with all the.
Minnie Hope was sitting with an Oxford. Presently he grabbed her hand and said . In the afternoon Sophie . Sidney for me to see I took. I felt prepared to face. Bain himself. I. expect he missed it.
He wanted to take me with him to Paddington and send. I didn't go- What would have happened. I had, it was ten o'clock! I. am rather inclined to think however that it is a dangerous.
Amusement, for one is so ready to make oneself believe that the things. One suddenly. finds that one had formulated some view from which it is very difficult. Then one is reduced. I was rather surprised at their taking this view. I found that they had just been.