Telegram, Steeple-Asherton Post Office, 8 April 1923, 13:42 dispatch
Form 17B, prepaid. From: ASHER, ASHER HALL. To: HORNCASTLE, SOLICITOR, 9 PUMP COURT, LONDON E.C.4.
ORCHID GONE FROM PRESS STOP POLICE NOT TO BE INFORMED STOP COME MONDAY ON THE FIRST TRAIN STOP DO NOT TELEPHONE STOP THE MATTER IS A FAMILY ONE STOP ASHER ENDS
Counterfoil annotation (sub-postmistress's hand): Words 28. Lady C. handed it in herself. She has not telegraphed in seven years; the last on the day of Sir H.'s passing.