Akt(e) RU-PCCL/Storrs/III/3 - Jerusalem, 1922. Letters and Reports.

1 box

This box contains papers from the Jerusalem period covering the year 1922.

Official documents include secret police resumés of events, secret minutes of meetings of Governors, fortnightly reports from Jerusalem district and police orders for possible riots.

The folder is mainly filled with social letters. Writters include C R Ashbee, Gertrude Bell, Mary Berenson, Bernard Berenson, Lord Allenby, Lord Milner, Shane Leslie about Mark Sykes, Weizmann and Sirri Pasha.

Storrs had a close friendship with Gertrude Bell, having walked with her in the desert and exchanged views on the local people and architecture. They exchanged many chatty letters.

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