PC/3/4/27 - Letter, PC to her parents, 16/11/1948
Reference code
PC/3/4/27
Level of description
Item
Title
Letter, PC to her parents, 16/11/1948
Date/s
16/11/1948
Quantity & Format
5 pages; 3 leaves Letters (typescript)
Subject
Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949
Creator
Crampton, Patricia, 1925-2016Creator
Wood, Vera MarionAdministrative/Biographical history
recipientCreator
Wood, Leslie John CardewAdministrative/Biographical history
recipient
Scope and content
TS. 5 pages, 3 leaves. With envelope dated 23/11/1948.
Hanna had lost her baby in Paris. She was now in the US. Hans would join her.
PC asks for more duffle coats to be sent for her friends.
Her typist is “Beil, she is about 25, a German, engaged to a GI and is very nice. We are a very efficient team.”
She finds the illness of her sister ‘J’ most puzzling. She writes of her own abdominal problems. She mentions family friends including Valerie Pitt and the Tomaszewskis. PC contemplates bringing the Jeep home, on cheaper American fuel. She writes of desirable Christmas presents.
She’d spent an interesting weekend in Stuttgart at the opening of Fietz’ art exhibition. She met the British Consul, [John Anthony] Thwaites, an authority on modern art. They stayed at the Graf Zeppelin (a former show hotel in Germany).
PC had spent 5 days in Zurich, Lucerne and Bern with Mac and Wolf. Mac “is doing wonderfully and would have been a most ‘secure’ person for me to marry! I shall always think he is a very wonderful person – this last weekend was a very great strain but he made it very much pleasanter for me than anyone else could or would have.”
She would enclose photographs. One is of her with the photographer Herbert List, another with Uti (sculptor).
She explains that an American producer from Berlin was running the Little Theatre Group.
PC is grateful for Wolf’s company in Nuremberg. She also enjoys the freedom of her Jeep and her cosmopolitan friends, many of whom who have lived in Germany for 10 years or so; artistic exiles from France, England and Italy. “Their spirit is amazing, considering how artists were suppressed completely under the Nazis.”
Wolf was being forced by the Americans to adopt Israeli citizenship in order to renew his permit for Germany. He was against the adoption of Israeli citizenship. PC expresses her political views on Israel, Palestine, Britain and the US. “I myself think that to support the Arabs militarily was a lousy thing to do. UN proposed the boundaries, and the Arabs promptly invaded, and I am sumpwise [surprised] at you Daddy – the jews acting badly now doesn’t justify backhandedness earlier on, on the part of the greatest nation in the world!”
PC enjoyed Forster’s ‘Passage to India’ and she had seen ‘Hamlet’ (film) with Laurence Olivier in Zurich.
Hanna had lost her baby in Paris. She was now in the US. Hans would join her.
PC asks for more duffle coats to be sent for her friends.
Her typist is “Beil, she is about 25, a German, engaged to a GI and is very nice. We are a very efficient team.”
She finds the illness of her sister ‘J’ most puzzling. She writes of her own abdominal problems. She mentions family friends including Valerie Pitt and the Tomaszewskis. PC contemplates bringing the Jeep home, on cheaper American fuel. She writes of desirable Christmas presents.
She’d spent an interesting weekend in Stuttgart at the opening of Fietz’ art exhibition. She met the British Consul, [John Anthony] Thwaites, an authority on modern art. They stayed at the Graf Zeppelin (a former show hotel in Germany).
PC had spent 5 days in Zurich, Lucerne and Bern with Mac and Wolf. Mac “is doing wonderfully and would have been a most ‘secure’ person for me to marry! I shall always think he is a very wonderful person – this last weekend was a very great strain but he made it very much pleasanter for me than anyone else could or would have.”
She would enclose photographs. One is of her with the photographer Herbert List, another with Uti (sculptor).
She explains that an American producer from Berlin was running the Little Theatre Group.
PC is grateful for Wolf’s company in Nuremberg. She also enjoys the freedom of her Jeep and her cosmopolitan friends, many of whom who have lived in Germany for 10 years or so; artistic exiles from France, England and Italy. “Their spirit is amazing, considering how artists were suppressed completely under the Nazis.”
Wolf was being forced by the Americans to adopt Israeli citizenship in order to renew his permit for Germany. He was against the adoption of Israeli citizenship. PC expresses her political views on Israel, Palestine, Britain and the US. “I myself think that to support the Arabs militarily was a lousy thing to do. UN proposed the boundaries, and the Arabs promptly invaded, and I am sumpwise [surprised] at you Daddy – the jews acting badly now doesn’t justify backhandedness earlier on, on the part of the greatest nation in the world!”
PC enjoyed Forster’s ‘Passage to India’ and she had seen ‘Hamlet’ (film) with Laurence Olivier in Zurich.
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