PC/3/4/14 - Letter, PC to her parents, 3/6/1948

PC/3/4/14

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Letter, PC to her parents, 3/6/1948

3/6/1948

12 numbered pages; 6 leaves Letters (MS)
1 Poem

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

MS. 12 numbered pages. 6 leaves. With enclosed poem 'Fallen is love among the lilies' (1 leaf).

Wolf[gang Hildesheimer] had said it was the best she had written. When she recited it to others it had brought tears to their eyes.

PC had bought a portable typewriter.

She hoped to be in Paris in May at the same time as Hans and Hanna on their honeymoon. Her contract ended in July and she expected to be home in August for the family holiday. She was also arranging a fortnight in Italy.

PC discusses theatre and literature.

She is suffering from hay fever. She describes another couple of journeys to Basel and an offensive Nazi on the train “I was so fascinated to be listening for the first time to a German talking completely freely with no idea that I was in the occupying forces …” She describes the bad feelings between the Germans and Russians.

PC asks about the ghastly Palestine situation. “What’s Bevin thinking about?” She cannot be unbiased as her Jewish friends have lived in and loved both Palestine and England “and hoped to become English, but now feel that they cannot go whining for passports to a country which is supporting an attack on their own people.”

[Ernest Bevin: British Foreign Secretary of the post-war Labour government].