COLLECTION NAME:
Guardian Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL20120649
Reference Number:
GDN/A/P53/6
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Series Title:
Correspondence with M. Philips Price
Parent Work Title:
Letter from Morgan Philips Price to Charles Prestwich Scott
Creator:
Price, M. Philips (Morgan Philips), 1885-1973
Creator Role:
Author
Date Created:
1914-11-09
Description:
Price writes that he is sending Scott a copy of this new book 'The Diplomatic History of the War'. He also thanks Scott for promising to send him some letters 'as your Special Correspondent in Russia'. Price goes on to discuss where he we hopes to travel to.
Transcription:
Tibberton Court Gloucester Dear Mr. Scott, I am sending you a copy of my new book on “The Diplomatic History of the War” which I hope you will accept from me. I do not expect it will be very well received, for although I do not express my views very strongly in them, still it is quite clear what I am driving at, and I think I have a good deal of evidence for my case. As far as I am aware, I have got every document, communication, Press correspondence, etc., relating to the negotiations preceding the outbreak of war in chronological order. Thank you for promising to send me some letters as your Special Correspondent in Russia. I shall be leaving about the 20th, and I propose to travel via Christiania, Stockholm and Finland to St. Petersburg. There I shall get in touch with all the people that I know and shall decide what area of the war to go to. If you know of anyone in St. Petersburg whom I should call on, I shall be very glad of any other introductions. I think that after a brief investigation of what is going on in Poland, I shall go straight down to the Caucasus, as I know that country well, and could describe the state of feeling there among the non-Russian nationalities, and the prospects of the Russian campaign in Armenia. I have been on those frontier posts which the Russians have recently captured, and know them intimately. I only hope the military authorities will not be so severe there as they are in western Europe. I shall be here on and off now till I leave, (ms. addition:) so could you send the letters to me at the above address as soon as is convenient. Yours sincerely, M. Philips Price.
Language:
English
Subject:
Letters
Subject:
War
Subject:
Journalists
Subject:
Travel
Category of Material:
Archives
Sub-Category:
Letters (correspondence)
Technique Used:
Typewriting
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Paper
Creation Site:
England: Gloucestershire: Gloucester
Time Period Covered:
20th Century CE
Places Covered:
Russia
Places Covered:
Armenia
Places Covered:
Poland
Places Covered:
Caucasus
People Covered:
Scott, Charles Prestwich, 1846-1932
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
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