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LAWRENCE EDWARD GRACE OATES (1880-1912)
Autograph letter signed ('LEG Oates') to his mother, S.Y. Terra Nova, Cardiff, 'Friday' [10 June 1910], on lined paper, 2 pages, 8vo, on a bifolium, autograph envelope.
Oates amid the bustle of Terra Nova docked in Cardiff: 'We brought up in Cardiff Roads last night ... The Mayor and his crowd came on board and I never saw such a mob they are Labour socialists we are booked for dinners, smoking concerts, music halls every night and people are running about with invitations'; informing his mother of his plans to stay with Colonel Herbert in Chepstow, complaining that 'we are in a frightful state of ordered confusion and are very handicapped by the visitors, the only gentleman I have seen come aboard yet is a telephone operator', and remarking that 'There are a whole lot of people talking in the Ward room so it is rather difficult to write'.
A letter giving some impression of Oates's unconscious charm and laid-back humour. Terra Nova had left the Thames on 1 June, and after taking part in a naval send-off from the Home Fleet in Portland Harbour called in to Cardiff to take on a final load of coal. Scott stayed behind to raise funds (he joined the ship in Simonstown) and the Terra Nova finally sailed for the South on 15 June.
Autograph letter signed ('LEG Oates') to his mother, S.Y. Terra Nova, Cardiff, 'Friday' [10 June 1910], on lined paper, 2 pages, 8vo, on a bifolium, autograph envelope.
Oates amid the bustle of Terra Nova docked in Cardiff: 'We brought up in Cardiff Roads last night ... The Mayor and his crowd came on board and I never saw such a mob they are Labour socialists we are booked for dinners, smoking concerts, music halls every night and people are running about with invitations'; informing his mother of his plans to stay with Colonel Herbert in Chepstow, complaining that 'we are in a frightful state of ordered confusion and are very handicapped by the visitors, the only gentleman I have seen come aboard yet is a telephone operator', and remarking that 'There are a whole lot of people talking in the Ward room so it is rather difficult to write'.
A letter giving some impression of Oates's unconscious charm and laid-back humour. Terra Nova had left the Thames on 1 June, and after taking part in a naval send-off from the Home Fleet in Portland Harbour called in to Cardiff to take on a final load of coal. Scott stayed behind to raise funds (he joined the ship in Simonstown) and the Terra Nova finally sailed for the South on 15 June.
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