Lady Jellicoe’s Gift

Southland Times, Issue 22816, 15 February 1936, Page 17

Lady Jellicoe’s Gift

Lady Jellicoe has presented to the Library at Winchester College the manuscript of a partially-completed address entitled “The War at Sea,” which her late husband had promised to deliver to the school (says the London correspondent of the Otago Daily Times, writing on January 18). He was preparing this before his illness, and shortly before passing away he expressed <his regret that it was still unfinished. The manuscript will be placed in a glass showcase in the school library, which was re-housed not long ago by adapting to a more learned use the old fourteenth-century brewhouse, contemporary with the foundation of the college. Lord Jellicoe, as many in New Zealand will be aware, wrote a beautiful hand, small and clear. Every letter from him was hand-written and never typewritten. Very often wonder was expressed that he found time to deal with his considerable correspondence in this personal manner. All who received letters from him valued them accordingly. The young earl won, at Winchester, an exhibition in history to take him to Trinity College, Cambridge. Probably one of the last articles which the late earl wrote was on “The Church and Overseas Settlement,” which forms a chapter of the Churchman’s Handbook for 1936. He emphasized in his conclusion “the indispensable part which can be played by the voluntary organizations” in this work; and concludes that “perhaps nobody is better fitted to play a part in this essential human problem than the Church, with its corporate membership and Empirewide organization.”