Letter. Mark Sykes, Rhenoster Bridge to Edith Gorst
- Reference No:
- U DDSY2/1/2b/33
- Dates:
- [1901]
- Description:
- About training black people as line watchers, Royal Engineers quartered there, a drunken telegraph clerk, the Royal Engineers getting drunk, a dialogue with a disobedient Royal Engineer, Edith's neuralgia, his opinions on Dickens, Thackeray, Swift and 18th century literature, and a prediction of a future reaction against science. Includes illustration of a donkey in a hat, and a black man in ragged clothes and a staff cap.
- Format:
- Archive Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Language:
- Access Conditions:
- Access will be granted to any accredited reader
- Repository:
- Hull University Archives
- Collection:
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Papers of the Sykes family of Sledmere
