Dr Alice Ker to her daughters

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 106 9/29/76
  • Former Reference
      GB 106 ALC/5475
  • Dates of Creation
      7 Apr 1912
  • Physical Description
      1 item

Scope and Content

From Holloway Prison. 'Miss Billinghurst, the tricycle lady is going out on the 11th and will take this'. She gives detailed timetable of the day in prison; meals, exercise, 'associated labour'. Chapel etc. Warm in her praise of Mr Hankinson, the Unitarian Minister (see also letters of Mrs Taylor from prison; she has the same opinion of him). Gives her directions how to send in clandestine notes sewn into clothes sent in for her. 'We have not hunger-struck because a message came in to wait till Parliament meets again on Wednesday, when it is thought our privileges will be given'. Praise the Prison Library; is reading a lot. Of Miss Billinghurst; 'we shall miss her very much when she goes out.'