FondsPDE-00026 - LORENZO GATT
Series001 - COMMUNICATIONS
Subseries01 - Correspondence between Lorenzo Gatt and his cousin Joseph KE Gatt
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Item0036 - Draft letter by Lorenzo to Joseph thankng him for his letters of the 26th October and 10th instant and congratulating him for his promotion.etc
Item0037 - Draft letter undated and with missing pages) by Lorenzo to Joseph informing him that Edgar is well and presumes he will go to see John and consult him on his future etc
Item0038 - Letter from Joseph to Lorenzo in which he informs him that Gigi, congratulating Lorenzo on the acquisition of a car and commenting about compulsory education.He is anxious about Edgar's silence.
Item0039 - Letter from Joseph to Lorenzo saying that his brother is anxious to exchange into the RAMC on account of seasickness, has not as yet heard from Edgar and John.
Item0040 - Draft letter by Lorenzo to Joseph saying that Edgar wrote him from Java and Mauritius and is in good health and will be returning to england for Xams. Gigi is still employed in the minesweeper which returns to Malta every eight or nine days.He has not received an answer to his application for appointment as surgeon. If his request is not granted he will leave the naval service and proceed to England and join the RAMC etc.
Item0041 - Letter from Joseph to Lorenzo writing from India saying that he has not heard from him for several months Comments on the war that America is finally at war too. Says he heard from his youngest brother but not from the other two.
Item0042 - Draft letter by Lorenzo to Joseph informing him that Gigi has left the trenches and is attached to an artillery etc
Item0043 - Letter from Joseph to Lorenzo writing about the frontier campaign, about all being rationed etc
Item0044 - Letter from Joseph to Lorenzo informing him that his work as Sanitary Officer has come to a close He lost his hobby for a time - that is the research work in bacteriology and tropical hygiene. He writes about his latest inventions: 1) an all steel apparatus ( portable weighs two & a half pounds) for the rapid sterilisation of water by chlorine gas 2) a collapsable paraffined tissue paper latrine receptacle(in shape like the Chinese lantern) for use in frontier campaign while transport difficulties are enormous.
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Reports

Draft letter by Lorenzo to Joseph saying that Edgar wrote him from Java and Mauritius and is in good health and will be returning to england for Xams. Gigi is still employed in the minesweeper which returns to Malta every eight or nine days.He has not received an answer to his application for appointment as surgeon. If his request is not granted he will leave the naval service and proceed to England and join the RAMC etc.