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Ts transcript (207pp) from a housewife in her late fifties to her son Stephen, December 1940 - July 1945, but almost all written from August 1943 onwards following her husband's sudden death that month, describing life at the family home in Hale, Cheshire, her concern for Stephen and his brother Anthony who were serving as junior Army officers in the Middle East and Italy (where Anthony was seriously wounded) and for their younger brother who was discharged from the Army on psychiatric grounds shortly after being called up in 1944 and had to undergo specialist treatment, and her constant anxiety about the financial state of the family brickmaking business and the future security of herself and her sons, as well as containing a few useful references to the bombing of Manchester (December 1940), the low standard of behaviour of British girls going out with American servicemen (early 1944), the temporary accommodation of some evacuees from London in their home (August 1944), the rising cost of living in Britain and the importance of letters in preserving family links in wartime
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Ts transcript (207pp) from a housewife in her late fifties to her son Stephen, December 1940 - July 1945, but almost all written from August 1943 onwards following her husband's sudden death that month, describing life at the family home in Hale, Cheshire, her concern for Stephen and his brother Anthony who were serving as junior Army officers in the Middle East and Italy (where Anthony was seriously wounded) and for their younger brother who was discharged from the Army on psychiatric grounds shortly after being called up in 1944 and had to undergo specialist treatment, and her constant anxiety about the financial state of the family brickmaking business and the future security of herself and her sons, as well as containing a few useful references to the bombing of Manchester (December 1940), the low standard of behaviour of British girls going out with American servicemen (early 1944), the temporary accommodation of some evacuees from London in their home (August 1944), the rising cost of living in Britain and the importance of letters in preserving family links in wartime
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Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1992-06