Description
Object description
Bound collection of some 450 letters and telegrams principally from a young evacuee and her brother, Reginald, and their host families in Canada, to the children's parents in Bristol, June 1940 - March 1943, covering arrangements for their evacuation, the journey across the Atlantic on the MONARCH OF BERMUDA and schools and family life in Toronto and Winnipeg, with useful insights into the difficulties faced by the foster carers and by children separated from their parents, and details also of civilian conditions and attitudes in wartime Canada; together with carbon copies of 41 letters from her parents in Bristol, 1942 - 1943, miscellaneous papers, mainly concerning the children in Canada, but including an ms letter (10pp) dated 13 December 1942 from a Canadian soldier writing about conditions in England, a privately printed memoir (59pp) describing her evacuation to Canada and her difficulties in readjusting after her return to England in November 1944, and 22 sheets of prints of photographs relating to her life with her foster parents in Canada.
Content description
Bound collection of some 450 letters and telegrams principally from a young evacuee and her brother, Reginald, and their host families in Canada, to the children's parents in Bristol, June 1940 - March 1943, covering arrangements for their evacuation, the journey across the Atlantic on the MONARCH OF BERMUDA and schools and family life in Toronto and Winnipeg, with useful insights into the difficulties faced by the foster carers and by children separated from their parents, and details also of civilian conditions and attitudes in wartime Canada; together with carbon copies of 41 letters from her parents in Bristol, 1942 - 1943, miscellaneous papers, mainly concerning the children in Canada, but including an ms letter (10pp) dated 13 December 1942 from a Canadian soldier writing about conditions in England, a privately printed memoir (59pp) describing her evacuation to Canada and her difficulties in readjusting after her return to England in November 1944, and 22 sheets of prints of photographs relating to her life with her foster parents in Canada.
History note
Cataloguer AC
History note
Catalogue date 2001-01