Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from William Fowler

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GB 0248 DC 002/14/201

Date(s)

25 December 1918

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letter

Name of creator

Fowler | William | fl1913 | International College, Izmir (Turkey)

Scope and Content

Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from William Fowler in which he states that his prolongued and enforced stay at Smyrna probably saved him the fate suffered by some of his fellow students during world war one. He tells Bower that he received his dismissal from the International College 6 months after Turkey entered the war and that he had hoped to be home by now but there has been no transport available and he has not got the money to pay for his passage from Egypt. He has been teaching for 2 weeks in the Victoria College in Alexandria but he isn't sure whether there will be work for him after the vacation or whether the government would send him home. He describes Alexandria as a progressive city but tells Bower that he would prefer to be in Glasgow.

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Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from William Fowler
Item Summary
Reference Code	GB 0248 DC 002/14/201
Date(s)	25 December 1918
Extent and medium of the unit of description	1 letter
Name of creator	Fowler \| William \| fl1913 \| International College, Izmir (Turkey)
Scope and Content
Scope and Content	Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from William Fowler in which he states that his prolongued and enforced stay at Smyrna probably saved him the fate suffered by some of his fellow students during world war one. He tells Bower that he received his dismissal from the International College 6 months after Turkey entered the war and that he had hoped to be home by now but there has been no transport available and he has not got the money to pay for his passage from Egypt. He has been teaching for 2 weeks in the Victoria College in Alexandria but he isn't sure whether there will be work for him after the vacation or whether the government would send him home. He describes Alexandria as a progressive city but tells Bower that he would prefer to be in Glasgow.
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Subjects	Employees, Dismissal Travel World War, 1914-1918
People	Bower \| Frederick Orpen \| 1855-1948 \| regius professor of botany, University of Glasgow Fowler \| William \| fl1913 \| International College, Izmir (Turkey)
Businesses and Organisations	International College \| 1891-: \| educational establishment \| Izmir (Turkey) Victoria College \| 1906-1956 \| educational establishment \| Alexandria (Egypt)
Places	Egypt Glasgow (Scotland) Turkey
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