Description
Object description
An extensive collection of ms and ts correspondence, including airgraph letters between her and a Civil Service shorthand typist employed at Southern Command HQ in Salisbury, Wiltshire and then at a telecommunications establishment in Bournemouth, and two friends in uniform - J C Barker, a junior officer in the Royal Engineers who served in India, Persia, Italy and the UK (December 1940 - December 1945) and G W Points, who became a CQMS in the Pioneer Corps and served in the Middle East, Malta and Italy (August 1941 - January 1946). Their rather literary letters reflect their shared love of the countryside, architecture and English literature, but are illuminating about some of the minor pleasures and aggravations of life in England and on active service during the Second World War, and on the writers' hopes and aspirations for the post-war period. The collection also includes some photographs taken by Barker in the Middle East, two interesting letters from Mrs Munslow's brother in the Forces, and a "commonplace book" compiled by her and another typist at Southern Command HQ in 1939 - 1940 mostly including copies of poems and other writings taken from the national and local press.
Content description
An extensive collection of ms and ts correspondence, including airgraph letters between her and a Civil Service shorthand typist employed at Southern Command HQ in Salisbury, Wiltshire and then at a telecommunications establishment in Bournemouth, and two friends in uniform - J C Barker, a junior officer in the Royal Engineers who served in India, Persia, Italy and the UK (December 1940 - December 1945) and G W Points, who became a CQMS in the Pioneer Corps and served in the Middle East, Malta and Italy (August 1941 - January 1946). Their rather literary letters reflect their shared love of the countryside, architecture and English literature, but are illuminating about some of the minor pleasures and aggravations of life in England and on active service during the Second World War, and on the writers' hopes and aspirations for the post-war period. The collection also includes some photographs taken by Barker in the Middle East, two interesting letters from Mrs Munslow's brother in the Forces, and a "commonplace book" compiled by her and another typist at Southern Command HQ in 1939 - 1940 mostly including copies of poems and other writings taken from the national and local press.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1978-08