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Photocopied ts transcripts (80pp) of long, detailed letters by friends and relatives in Britain, May 1940 - February 1941, to a lady who had been evacuated to the United States with her children with good references to the BEF in France, the evacuation of children abroad and the projected German invasion, together with some excellent descriptions of air raids, the Blitz in London and Bristol, and civilian conditions, and useful passages on morale, general philosophy and post war aspirations; her husband's correspondence includes a very vivid letter (transcription 5pp) written in April 1941 while he was a Captain in the RAMC attached to the 64th Medium Regiment RA describing the action that his unit saw in Greece prior to the evacuation, and there is also a letter from Mrs Bowman herself (transcription 3pp) dated November 1944, and written after her return to England, in which she comments on her activities during the preceding summer.
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Catalogue date 1983-12
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Cataloguer PJT
