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PostSubject: Lugg's RD letter   Lugg's RD letter EmptySun Feb 19, 2023 6:25 pm

Lugg's letter was first published in a March 1879 edition of the Bristol Observer. Does anyone know the date?
Its next publication was in April so I reckon it was a late March edition.
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PostSubject: Re: Lugg's RD letter   Lugg's RD letter EmptySun Feb 19, 2023 7:00 pm

Julian,

Not the Bristol Observer but the Bristol Mercury of 5th April 1879 carries the letter under the headline A Young Bristolian at Rorke’s Drift.

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PostSubject: Re: Lugg's RD letter   Lugg's RD letter EmptySun Feb 19, 2023 8:44 pm

Thanks John. Lee and ABJ have it as March and Observer - perhaps in the latest version it's been corrected! Really useful for me.
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PostSubject: Re: Lugg's RD letter   Lugg's RD letter EmptySun Feb 19, 2023 8:49 pm

John, one more favour, was the letter itself dated in the Bristol Mercury or was it left undated?
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PostSubject: Re: Lugg's RD letter   Lugg's RD letter EmptySun Feb 19, 2023 9:27 pm

Julian,

Undated, starts with the phrase I know you were surprised….

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PostSubject: Re: Lugg's RD letter   Lugg's RD letter EmptyMon Feb 20, 2023 9:28 am

As I thought. Nothing new there then.
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