Bacon Letter to Jellicoe, 27 December, 1917

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Extract from a Letter from Reginald Hugh Spencer Bacon to Jellicoe. Add. MSS. 49036, f. 125 reproduced in The Jellicoe Papers Volume II, p. 256.

Admiral's Office,

Dover,

27th December, 1917.


I was very sorry to see this morning's papers. Sorry from every point of view, that of the country, the Navy, yourself, and lastly myself. It is bad news.[..]

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