PC/3/4/10 - Letter, PC to her parents, 12/12/1947
Reference code
PC/3/4/10
Level of description
Item
Title
Letter, PC to her parents, 12/12/1947
Date/s
12/12/1947
Quantity & Format
10 pages; 5 leaves Letters (MS)
Subject
I.G. Farben Trial, Nuremberg, 1947-1948
Creator
Crampton, Patricia, 1925-2016Creator
Wood, Vera MarionAdministrative/Biographical history
recipientCreator
Wood, Leslie John CardewAdministrative/Biographical history
recipient
Scope and content
MS. 10 pages. 5 leaves. With envelope stamped 21/12/1947, marked by PC as no. 10.
PC had received letters from Granny, Aunt M and Aunt G. PC would be spending some time with an aunt in Hove when she is in England. The office (Bunny [Beryl Beswick], Peter [Lawrence] and Phyllis) had given her chocolates for her birthday. She also mentions others in the office: Freddy and Dr Galewski. Helga, Gerda, Dorothea, John and others had also given her gifts. She describes an outfit she’s wearing at her party the following night at the Grand Hotel in Nuremberg. Later she describes the evening.
Rationing had been reintroduced.
She’s just translated a 42-page ecclesiastical document on the complaints of the Nazi’s treatment of the Catholic Church in 1941. She did this in 4 days (‘6 pages in 8 hours is normally a good average’).
They are working on more general material as the ‘I.G. prosecution documents’ were all done and the ‘defense’ were not in need of any. [I.G. Farben (private German chemicals conglomerate)].
Her aunt had sent her ‘The Purple Plain’ by H.E. Bates. Horace [ornamental hippopotamus] had been ‘immortalised in verse’. [See also PC/14/3 Horace: ‘Ode to Mercury’].
She thanks her parents for offering to have ‘the other three to stay’ [Hans, Hanna and Mac]. She thinks Hans would rather stay with his family in Yorkshire. She’s had a letter from a girlfriend, Stew.
Describes the upcoming journey home and that she would meet her parents [at her aunt’s house] in Hove [for Christmas before heading home with them to Buckinghamshire].
PC had received letters from Granny, Aunt M and Aunt G. PC would be spending some time with an aunt in Hove when she is in England. The office (Bunny [Beryl Beswick], Peter [Lawrence] and Phyllis) had given her chocolates for her birthday. She also mentions others in the office: Freddy and Dr Galewski. Helga, Gerda, Dorothea, John and others had also given her gifts. She describes an outfit she’s wearing at her party the following night at the Grand Hotel in Nuremberg. Later she describes the evening.
Rationing had been reintroduced.
She’s just translated a 42-page ecclesiastical document on the complaints of the Nazi’s treatment of the Catholic Church in 1941. She did this in 4 days (‘6 pages in 8 hours is normally a good average’).
They are working on more general material as the ‘I.G. prosecution documents’ were all done and the ‘defense’ were not in need of any. [I.G. Farben (private German chemicals conglomerate)].
Her aunt had sent her ‘The Purple Plain’ by H.E. Bates. Horace [ornamental hippopotamus] had been ‘immortalised in verse’. [See also PC/14/3 Horace: ‘Ode to Mercury’].
She thanks her parents for offering to have ‘the other three to stay’ [Hans, Hanna and Mac]. She thinks Hans would rather stay with his family in Yorkshire. She’s had a letter from a girlfriend, Stew.
Describes the upcoming journey home and that she would meet her parents [at her aunt’s house] in Hove [for Christmas before heading home with them to Buckinghamshire].
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