the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Hugh Bell : unknown

'Perfectly fine and calm again. Father read us the finished article [on Trade Unions] to our great admiration. Then we did Italian and I read Sicilian history and a little Arabic. We saw a little land in the morning — it was the Portuguese coast just south of Finisterre. Mr Waugh brought me a note for 100 piastres issued by Gordon in Khartoum in April 1884 which I interpreted. I caught a stuffy cold in the morning sitting out in the wind.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell      Manuscript: Unknown

Hugh Bell : Presidential Address

'Spent the morning reading Father's Iron and Steel address and watching the camp being pitched and correcting my German [see additional information] proofs. After lunch went with Haidar and the invaluable Hassan to the top of the hill E of the town where there is a church.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell      Print: Unknown

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