Description
Object description
Photocopies of two ts memoirs (13pp and 12pp), written ca 1980, the first describing how, together with her husband who was an official with the League of Nations, her two very young children and a newly born baby, they drove from Switzerland to Nantes in France during May 1940, increasingly encountering refugees from Belgium and Northern France, and were eventually embarked on the coastal tramp SS DAVID LIVINGSTONE and, after ten days anchored offshore and living in very cramped conditions, crossed safely to Barry in South Wales in early June; and the second describing how she and her children joined a party of Oxford dons' families to be evacuated to the United States under a scheme operated by former Rhodes Scholars there and, after five weeks' temporary residence in Oxford, crossed the Atlantic in poor accommodation on the liner ANTONIA in late July 1940, landing at Quebec City in Canada and travelling by train to Montreal and on to Connecticut; together with a third ts memoir (6pp), written in 1997, covering her life with her children in Pennsylvania from September 1940 - October 1942 and their passage back to the United Kingdom on the SS HILARY, sailing in convoy, in November 1942.
Content description
Photocopies of two ts memoirs (13pp and 12pp), written ca 1980, the first describing how, together with her husband who was an official with the League of Nations, her two very young children and a newly born baby, they drove from Switzerland to Nantes in France during May 1940, increasingly encountering refugees from Belgium and Northern France, and were eventually embarked on the coastal tramp SS DAVID LIVINGSTONE and, after ten days anchored offshore and living in very cramped conditions, crossed safely to Barry in South Wales in early June; and the second describing how she and her children joined a party of Oxford dons' families to be evacuated to the United States under a scheme operated by former Rhodes Scholars there and, after five weeks' temporary residence in Oxford, crossed the Atlantic in poor accommodation on the liner ANTONIA in late July 1940, landing at Quebec City in Canada and travelling by train to Montreal and on to Connecticut; together with a third ts memoir (6pp), written in 1997, covering her life with her children in Pennsylvania from September 1940 - October 1942 and their passage back to the United Kingdom on the SS HILARY, sailing in convoy, in November 1942.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1997-03