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Transcript of conversation between Mabel Weiss (grand daughter of Elizabeth and Robert Spence Watson, daughter of Evelyn Spence Watson and Ernest Weiss) and Anne Craven

Transcript of conversation between Mabel Weiss (grand daughter of Elizabeth and Robert Spence Watson, daughter of Evelyn Spence Watson and Ernest Weiss) and Ann Craven. Concerning family reminiscences/anecdotes. Including memories of Bensham Grove, Elizabeth Spence Watson's funeral, Nansen's visitis to Bensham Grove, the first meeting of Evelyn SW and FE Weiss while skiing, unorthodox Quakerism, ESW's abstinence, Evelyn SW's Temperance activity, Evelyn SW and FEW's attendance at theatre, Prince Kroptkin's imprisonment in St. Petersburg and escape, Elizabeth SW's WWI pacifism - she protects a German butcher in Newcastle or Gateshead, RSW nearly shot as a spy when working for the Friends Relief Service during the Franco Prussian War.

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The History of English Rule and Policy in South Africa.' A Lecture Delivered in the Lecture room, Nelson Street, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne by Robert Spence Watson on Friday, the 30th May 1879, at the request of the Newcastle Liberal Association.

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