► William Loney R.N. ► Portrait
An undated letter in which William Loney in old age send his portrait and his Emerald album to his niece Annie to prevent them “falling ito strage hands”.
My dear Annie,
Rather thay Symonds[?] portrait & the Emerald photos should fall into strange hands I send them to you.
With a late Navy List before me I give you the present whereabouts of the persons whose photographs are in the Emerald collection. The last in the book, Purefoy Fitzgerald, left the service as a Lieutenant. His mother lives in ?????? place, one of the best residential places in London and he had property in ??????[Preston Candover?], Hants. where he died (in Hants.) of pneumonia in an attack of influenza during the late severe weather. When last in town I met him at the Army & Navy Club and regretted his untimely death sincerely the other day.
Your afft. uncle,
Wm. Loney
Rather thay Symonds[?] portrait & the Emerald photos should fall into strange hands I send them to you.
With a late Navy List before me I give you the present whereabouts of the persons whose photographs are in the Emerald collection. The last in the book, Purefoy Fitzgerald, left the service as a Lieutenant. His mother lives in ?????? place, one of the best residential places in London and he had property in ??????[Preston Candover?], Hants. where he died (in Hants.) of pneumonia in an attack of influenza during the late severe weather. When last in town I met him at the Army & Navy Club and regretted his untimely death sincerely the other day.
Your afft. uncle,
Wm. Loney
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