Letter clarifying a misunderstanding and expressing gratitude for support offered after a disaster.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 174\5\ img015 | |
| Date | 31th January 1931 guessed | |
| 3 I feel convinced that a wrong impression exists as to my attitude in this matter. restive, I am very anxious to remove it. (how comes?) Your Directors may think me lacking in appreciation of the great amount of expense they have necessarily been put to, and that I am not grateful for the consideration they have shewn? Please assure them this is far from being so, and that I fully recognise that since the date of the diaster, nothing could have exceeded the kindness and condolence which has been extended to me personally, as exe(Aero Engine)mplified in the sending of a car for members of the family to visit Wadhurst, the sympathetic & kind reception on arrival. | ||
From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).