The Henson Journals

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Wednesday, August 18th, 1920.

[The weather has again become chilly and wet. I frittered away the morning, and did little that was useful. Sir Robert & Lady Lighton came to lunch. Ella had many visitors at her "at home", which took the character of a valedictory function.] The weather became so chilly that we had the fire lighted in the drawing room after dinner, & sate round it. I read aloud from the "Daily Telegraph" a horrible narrative of the murder of the late Tsar & his family at Ekaterinberg by those ruffian Bolshevists.

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