Beschreibung
The collection comprises the following: (1/11) Ten manuscript letters signed (MLS) from Gwen of 31, Netherlands Road, New Barnet, Herts. to her sister Elsie (Mrs. Victor Davies), at Ingoldsby, Crostwaite Pk. Sth. Kingstown. The lettter content ranges from matters relating to family (some of whom were in active war service still enlisted), relations and friends and their circumstances in post-war Britain in 1946-49. Two letters are undated and another incomplete & another is a telegram dated June 2, 1949; In two further letters in 1955 & '57 Gwen writes about her husband returning to work after two months absence with illness & in the latter letter from Barnet General Hospital where she herself is awaiting an operation(12/22) Letters written between 1946 to Elsie and her husband include one from her brother John of 42 Kings Drive, Eastbourne, Sussex on January 3rd 1949. In addition to family matters and anecdotes of life a lot of the letter is in the form of an essay on the Life of John Churchill; a letter from Ted at an address in Kirby, Essex on May 25, 1949 is to Victor and Elsie and includes thanks from Ted & his wife for their congratulations on their 50th wedding anniversary; The same Ted & his wife Maude are an uncle & aunt and a more legible letter in Maude's hand from an address from a house caled "Belton" from Frinton Road, Frinton-On-Sea describes her daily life and her difficulties with the stairs - "I would like a bungalow these days;" a partial letter to Joe (possibly from Elsie) refers among many other things to visitors to Kingstown: "since the war there has been a terrific bulge on the passenger services. Every house in Kingstown is aburst with holiday makers - who are throwing money about and mostly paying fancy prices for goods they can't get in England. This keeps prices up to an alarming extent. Tomatoes (Irish) 7/6 a pound - later brought down to 5/-.plums 2/6, country butter 3/6 a lb (black market price).say nothing of vegetables." Another undated letter is to Elsie from her mother. A MSL in pencil from Moyallon House Portadown, Co Armagh, also undated. He comments on his time in that area of Ulster. Another undated letter from Victor Davies mother with an address at 77 North Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire expresses some of her private thoughts on Oliver's wife and also comments on a bad & virulent form of illness in the area as well as referring to housework she appears to be doing where she is staying and of a visit to the cemetery and not being depressed and lots more. This letter to her son is 10 pp. A partial undated letter to Gwen has comments about the County Dublin suburbs swarming with gardening women - "everything they do is right.take not notice of cat gardeners." A letter to Bay from her mother from the Ingoldsby Kingstown address refers to the bantam and the pullet and the cats and the Kingstown weather and comments "Gwen always gives me a feeling of security, the essence of the English character.However I havelived so long in Ireland now,nearly 40 years.I am quite enfolded in Ireland and never want to leave even if I have to stay here alone like your friend Mrs.Moore. She seems happy enough." (23/52) The remaining part of the collection consists mainly of notes, correspondence, a draft article & letters to Esmonde as well as 2 photographs - one of the inside of a church dated 1.5. 00 (?) on rear and another of a woman a man and possibly an adult daughter aboard a ship at sea. Among the items concerning Esmond are:a draft article titled Impossible Idealists; correspondence concerning Quaker meetings of Young Friends, a notice for ameeting at the Monkstown Meeting House in November, 1951; a letter from Marjorie E. Goodbody on headed notepaper with an address at Rosenallis, Eaton Square, Monkstown comments on the loss of young married quakers to other districts & the need for mor youth to give renewed vitality to the older Quakers in Monkstown. Another letter i. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 017404
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