1 3703 Telephone 2094 Vice Regal Lodge,
Dublin 28th February, 1916 Dear Sir Matthew, With reference to my letter of
last night, I made some further enquiries. It
seems that in addition to my telegram to Maitland
from London, His Excellency wrote to him himself,
and that in consequence he was particularly alive to
the necessity of sending press cuttings daily. He
found they did not arrive daily, and twice telephoned
on the subject to the Registrar before he communicated
with Sir Edward O'Farrell. The envelope I referred
to yesterday was the third instance of an accumulation
of cuttings arriving by the same post. That five or
six days cuttings arrived together is quite evidently
an exaggeration. The fact that each days cuttings
are in two batches, recruiting and ordinary, gives the
appearance of greater accumulation than is really the case. Yours sincerely,
Basil Blackwood I Wm to see
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