{"id":188,"date":"2014-02-26T10:52:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T10:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/2014\/02\/26\/selected-by-kate-obrien-archives-services\/"},"modified":"2018-10-03T11:07:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T11:07:24","slug":"selected-by-kate-obrien-archives-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/2014\/02\/26\/selected-by-kate-obrien-archives-services\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-188 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/2014\/02\/26\/selected-by-kate-obrien-archives-services\/attachment\/189\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/files\/2014\/02\/tumblr_n1cj0rPvwY1t348s2o1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Selected by Kate O&#8217;Brien, Archives Services Manager<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Request for help by former sailor, John Leish<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>What<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Letter from John Leish, former Royal Navy sailor, 21 November 1924, requesting financial assistance.\u00a0Sent to General Sir Ian Hamilton, President of the London Metropolitan Area, British Legion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Why<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This looks like the writing of a soul in torment.\u00a0Of the hundreds of requests for help received by Hamilton in the course of his British Legion work, this is one of the saddest, with its straggling handwriting and punctuation-free stream of consciousness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Ref:\u00a0Hamilton 11\/5\/3<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingscollections.org\/catalogues\/lhcma\/collection\/h\/ha30-001\">www.kingscollections.org\/catalogues\/lhcma\/collection\/h\/ha30-001<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selected by Kate O&#8217;Brien, Archives Services Manager Request for help by former sailor, John Leish What Letter from John Leish, former Royal Navy sailor, 21 November 1924, requesting financial assistance.\u00a0Sent to General Sir Ian Hamilton, President of the London Metropolitan Area, British Legion. Why This looks like the writing of a soul in torment.\u00a0Of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/2014\/02\/26\/selected-by-kate-obrien-archives-services\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,247],"tags":[7,104,105,78,3],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-lhcma","category-military-history","tag-archives","tag-british-legion","tag-impact-of-war","tag-royal-navy","tag-ww1","post_format-post-format-gallery","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}