Description
Object description
94 ms letters (301pp) and seven postcards to her parents near Gravesend, Kent, written by her as a teenage evacuee in Suffolk (October 1939 - August 1940) and Exmouth (September 1940 - July 1941), with good details of her initial departure from home and reception as an evacuee, and of school life and recreation; together with 60 ms letters (84pp) and nine postcards from her younger brother unhappily evacuated to Suffolk and Devon with his school, and 75 ms letters (93pp) and two postcards from her younger sister evacuated with her to Exmouth (July 1940 - July 1942), both with details of their billets and school life, and all showing the close family ties, their need for parental guidance and advice, the early responsibilities given them, and their concern for their parents and baby sister left behind in Kent. Also with the collection are nine ms letters (19pp) from the children's hosts to their parents (October 1939 - June 1942, 1953), the children's school reports (1939 - 1942), and a wp introduction to their evacuation with copies of 17 photographs of the children and their billets (1939 - 1941).
Content description
94 ms letters (301pp) and seven postcards to her parents near Gravesend, Kent, written by her as a teenage evacuee in Suffolk (October 1939 - August 1940) and Exmouth (September 1940 - July 1941), with good details of her initial departure from home and reception as an evacuee, and of school life and recreation; together with 60 ms letters (84pp) and nine postcards from her younger brother unhappily evacuated to Suffolk and Devon with his school, and 75 ms letters (93pp) and two postcards from her younger sister evacuated with her to Exmouth (July 1940 - July 1942), both with details of their billets and school life, and all showing the close family ties, their need for parental guidance and advice, the early responsibilities given them, and their concern for their parents and baby sister left behind in Kent. Also with the collection are nine ms letters (19pp) from the children's hosts to their parents (October 1939 - June 1942, 1953), the children's school reports (1939 - 1942), and a wp introduction to their evacuation with copies of 17 photographs of the children and their billets (1939 - 1941).
History note
Cataloguer PJB
History note
Catalogue date 2005-03