Author:
Sir Reginald Tupper [Sir Reginald Godfrey Otway Tupper] (1859-1945), Royal Navy admiral, active in the First World War, and his second wife Lady Caroline Tupper (1863-1948)
Publication details:
Tupper’s letters: 3 and 10 February 1937, both on letterhead of 22 Draycott Place, S.W.3. [London]. Lady Tupper’s letters: 17 December 1943, on letterhead of The King’s House, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey; and 13 July 1944; on Draycott Place letterhead.
See his entry in the Oxford DNB, which states: ‘After the death of his first wife he married second, on 24 June 1933, Caroline Maud Abadie (1863–1948), the widow of General Sir Henry Richard Abadie; she was the daughter of Colonel Fanshawe Gostling, of the Royal Berkshire regiment.’ In addition to the two letters apiece from Sir Reginald and Lady Tupper, the material includes, as Item Five, a leaf carrying a 26-line postscript from Lady Tupper to a lost letter. All but Item Five below are on uniform 12mo leaves of grey paper.