Letter from D. W. Oliver to Harold John Tennant, 5 May 1916 Letters 1916-1923 D. W. Oliver

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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.

National Archives of Ireland Chief Secretary’s Office Registered papers, CSO RP/1916/8718/2 https://letters1916.ie/item/2154 English D. W. Oliver 1916-05-05 Bank of Montreal, 9 Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, London, England H. J. Tennant War Office, Whitehall, London, England Male Easter Rising Ireland 1916 Easter Rising Ireland 1916 Industry and Public Administration

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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. Bank of Montreal, 9 Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, London, England Letter from D. W. Oliver to Harold John Tennant, 5 May 1916 War Office, Whitehall, London, England Letter from Donald MacMaster to Harold John Tennant, 5 May 1916Letter from D. W. Oliver to Harold John Tennant, 5 May 1916 D. W. Oliver Telegram from Daisy Craske to D. W. Oliver, 4 May 1916Letter from D. W. Oliver to Harold John Tennant, 5 May 1916