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State Library of New South Wales
Letter from Ellis Ashmead Bartlett to Prime Minister Asquith, 8 September 1915

Letter from Ellis Ashmead Bartlett to Prime Minister Asquith, 8 September 1915

Acquired from Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, via publisher Angus & Robertson, 1916, A1583

Manuscript

According to Charles Bean, Ashmead-Bartlett’s letter: ‘put the state of things in rather a crude light. It was a brilliantly written letter — rather overstating the case as Bartlett always does, but a great deal of it was unanswerable and badly needs understanding.’
Charles Bean, ‘Ashmead Bartlett and a crisis’, diary, 29 September 1915, 3DRL/6673 892, Australian War Memorial 38.