Description
Object description
16 ms letters (64pp) from an evacuee to her parents, 1939 – November 1941, with details of travelling to Chichester, Sussex (February 1939), schooling at the Bishop's Palace, looking after her younger sister, Ann, seeing films, her friends, hearing planes (September 1939) but not being scared, clothes, games, concerts, air raids, learning shorthand and typing, delight at her mother remarrying and having a baby, Pauline, a brief stay in the Royal West Sussex Hospital (July 1941) for an operation, crashing her bike, being offered a cigarette by a soldier in the cinema (to her mother's displeasure), and preparations for Christmas 1941. Jean Morton left school at 14 and returned to London to start work. Two of the letters are written on the backs of typed letters, the first relating to the Overseas Reception Scheme for School Children (June 1940) (she wanted to go to Canada), and the second asking for contributions to a School Christmas Party for evacuees (November 1940).
Content description
16 ms letters (64pp) from an evacuee to her parents, 1939 – November 1941, with details of travelling to Chichester, Sussex (February 1939), schooling at the Bishop's Palace, looking after her younger sister, Ann, seeing films, her friends, hearing planes (September 1939) but not being scared, clothes, games, concerts, air raids, learning shorthand and typing, delight at her mother remarrying and having a baby, Pauline, a brief stay in the Royal West Sussex Hospital (July 1941) for an operation, crashing her bike, being offered a cigarette by a soldier in the cinema (to her mother's displeasure), and preparations for Christmas 1941. Jean Morton left school at 14 and returned to London to start work. Two of the letters are written on the backs of typed letters, the first relating to the Overseas Reception Scheme for School Children (June 1940) (she wanted to go to Canada), and the second asking for contributions to a School Christmas Party for evacuees (November 1940).
History note
Cataloguer SJO