PC/3/4/16 - Letter, PC to her parents, 9/7/1948

PC/3/4/16

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Letter, PC to her parents, 9/7/1948

9/7/1948

4 leaves Letters (typescript and MS)

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

MS & TS. 4 leaves. The last leaf is typed.

PC addresses her parents concern at her having gone to Venice alone with Wolf[gang Hildesheimer]. She explains that in England a love affair could be justifiably presumed but that on the Continent it was quite normal to ask friends on trips, much like asking them around to your home back in England. Wolf had become her and Charles’s great friend. She writes of Charles: “he is a very wonderful person. And very, very capable of looking after his own reactions.”

“I don’t want to marry anyone at the moment.” She is thinking of looking for another job, is awaiting a redundancy settlement and hopes to have her appendix removed by a German surgeon (not an army one) before she leaves. “I could also well afford to pay for it.”