English was not habitually used in speech or writing by any English king until Henry V.'s reign, 350 years after the Norman conquest. Henry IV. at the beginning of the 15th century still wrote in French to his English tailor in London, as shown by a letter in the British Museum. The spacious days of William Ewart Gladstone have- been brought appreciably nearer. An arrangement has just been made whereby the British Museum in London is to become the repository of the voluminous papers the many-sided^ statesman amassed. The collection includes some 60,000 docketed letters which he either wrote in an official capacity or received from others,
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 74, 28 March 1930, Page 3
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107Untitled Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 74, 28 March 1930, Page 3
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