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Bank of Montreal
9, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall
London. S.W. 5th May 1916 Sir:- I have just received copy of a letter
from Mr. Donald MacMaster, M. P. addressed
to you, and as some of the particulars are
not quite correct I thought it advisable to
send you the original message from my sister,
whose name is Craske, and whose husband is
Colonel Craske, D.S.O. C.M.G. of the Leinster
Regiment. Her nurse Cissie Harte left Birr
during the Easter holidays, and has since then
not been heard of. My sister's husband
managed to get to Dublin, and I understand had
charge of one of the Railway Stations there
and as far as I know is still in Dublin. My sister is very anxious and so are
the family of the girl in question. If it is
possible to get a wire through and reply I
shall be deeply grateful. Thanking you in anticipation, and
regretting the trouble given you,
Yours faithfully, H. W. Oliver
The Rt.Hon.H.J. Tennant,
or in his absence
Ian Macpherson, Esq. , M.P.
War Office,
Whitehall, S.W.
Letter from D.W. Oliver, the London manager of the Montreal Bank, to Harold John Tennant
(1865-1935). Tennant was British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith's brother-in-law and
also acted as his assistant private secretary. Other posts which he occupied were
financial secretary to the War Office from 1911-1912, under-secretary of state from
1912-1916 and secretary of Scotland from July 1916 to December 1916.
The letter is clarifying mistakes which have been made in a previous letter in relation
to the sending of a dispatch to Dublin to investigate the whereabouts of a maid who
had travelled to Dublin on Easter Monday but had not been heard from since.