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Date: March 2nd 1915
To
Mr. Beaumont-Boggs
From
Elsie Durrant
Letter

[Note: Stationery letterhead “LABES PEJOR MORTE” is the Durrant family motto: “Disgrace is worse than death.”]

R.M.D4.
Victoria
2nd March

Dear Mr Boggs.

I cannot tell you how utterly shocked and distressed I was by the news in this mornings paper. Nothing one can say helps very much, or indeed at all.

I know my husband would wish me to express his deep sympathy with mine until he can do so himself I am writing to you, because although I have had the pleasure of meeting Mrs Boggs it is some time ago, and she probably would not remember me.

Believe me
Yours very sincerely
Elsie Durrant.

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