PC/3/4 - Letters from Patricia Crampton in Nuremberg to her parents, 1947-1949

PC/3/4

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Letters from Patricia Crampton in Nuremberg to her parents, 1947-1949

1947-1949

32 Letters
1 Postcards, picture (monochrome)

Crampton, Patricia, 1925-2016
Wood, Leslie John Cardewrecipient
Wood, Vera Marionrecipient

Letters with inserts of photos, postcards etc. Mostly with envelopes.

There are 10 letters from June to December 1947. PC has numbered them 1-10.

The letter containing the most on the Nuremberg trials, including the trial of Oswald Pohl: PC/3/4/9.

There are 16 letters and a postcard from 1948.
There are 5 letters from 1949.

At the time Patricia was using her maiden name, Wood. The letters describe her working and social life in Nuremberg, travels across Europe (particularly in Switzerland, Austria and Germany), her relationships with Charles Macnamara and Wolfgang Hildesheimer [see also PC/4/1], and shopping for herself, friends and family - a reflection on the availability of goods on the Continent after war-time restrictions.

[PC describes in an Imperial War Museum recording in 1997 that her mother threw away her earliest letters home].