Description
Object description
Substantial collection of letters and other papers (in French and English) from the period 1939 - 1946, of a Vincennes tradesman dealing in decorated glassware and crockery, comprising: business papers and receipts; wartime applications for clothing etc (with attached birth and marriage certificates); correspondence on private and family matters; documents relating to his activities as a lieutenant in the Forces Francaises de l'Interieur, including his carbon ts military report (7pp) on transportation and communications in post D-Day France (no date, mid-1940s?) and to his membership of various patriotic and veteran associations; post-war correspondence with English acquaintances in Wembley, containing references to food rationing and material shortages in Britain and France, problems of obtaining a work permit as an alien in Britain, submission of a war damages claim, and experiences of VE-Day in London, May 1945
Content description
Substantial collection of letters and other papers (in French and English) from the period 1939 - 1946, of a Vincennes tradesman dealing in decorated glassware and crockery, comprising: business papers and receipts; wartime applications for clothing etc (with attached birth and marriage certificates); correspondence on private and family matters; documents relating to his activities as a lieutenant in the Forces Francaises de l'Interieur, including his carbon ts military report (7pp) on transportation and communications in post D-Day France (no date, mid-1940s?) and to his membership of various patriotic and veteran associations; post-war correspondence with English acquaintances in Wembley, containing references to food rationing and material shortages in Britain and France, problems of obtaining a work permit as an alien in Britain, submission of a war damages claim, and experiences of VE-Day in London, May 1945
History note
Cataloguer SWW
History note
Catalogue date 1990-11