Jellicoe Letter to Frewen, 12 February, 1920

Letter from Lord Jellicoe to Lieutenant-Commander Oswald Frewen concerning the Jutland controversy, located in Add. MSS. 537338 in the possession of the British Library, reproduced in The Beatty Papers Volume II, pp. 437-438.

Letter

St Lawrence Hall,

Ventnor,

Isle of Wight,

12/2/20

My Dear Frewen,

Many thanks for your letter.

It was kind of you to write. I went to the Admiralty yesterday to pay my official call & knocked up against Captain Harper in the passage, very angry with the Daily Mail for an attack on him. I have not seen the article, as that is a paper I do not read. I fancy the First Lord is taking up the matter in the House.

I mentioned to him the delay in publication and am seeing him again next week, when I intend to go into the question of alterations in the report. I shall not of course say where I heard of [438] them, but many people have spoken to me on the subject. I may ask to see the original report. Captain Harper told me that the erasures were only thinly ruled through and I could easily see what was said in the original. I understand that von Scheer's report is to be published.

What a mine of wealth this publication will be to those so-called naval experts to write articles for money!! . . .

yours sincerely,

[Signed] JELLICOE