Doesn't the man in Paddy's photograph have too much hair?
Mary Hamer
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> On 21 Feb 2017, at 06:07, Meredith Dixon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Mike Kipling <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> If the photo was at the latest 8th July, it could not have been the subject of an event around over a week later described in a letter to Elsie.
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> I don't think Paddy meant to suggest that the photo had been taken on
> "his visit to London the day before;" I think he quoted the letter
> because of its mention of "the lunch" and the Duke of Connaught,
> "“Then I to my graves commission, after having writ our names in the
> D. of C.’s book - a detail I had omitted since the lunch...,"
> reasoning that the photo might have been taken at "the lunch," which
> had evidently taken place on a previous day (always presuming that by
> "the lunch" Kipling did not mean that day's lunch at the Carlton with
> Uncle Stan!)
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> Meredith Dixon <[log in to unmask]>
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