PC/3/4/4 - Letter, PC to her parents, 18/9/1947
Reference code
PC/3/4/4
Level of description
Item
Title
Letter, PC to her parents, 18/9/1947
Date/s
18/9/1947
Quantity & Format
6 pages; 3 leaves Letters (typescript and MS)
4 Photographs (monochrome)
4 Photographs (monochrome)
Creator
Crampton, Patricia, 1925-2016Creator
Wood, Vera MarionAdministrative/Biographical history
recipientCreator
Wood, Leslie John CardewAdministrative/Biographical history
recipient
Scope and content
TS (first page) and MS. 6 pages. 3 leaves. With envelope, marked by PC as no. 4. PC is writing from Nuernberg [Nuremberg]. Includes photographs marked 1,4,6,8.
For the first time in many weeks her section is out of work, having cannily moved it to other sections who had been doing nothing. They then furiously ring up because ‘they are totally unfamiliar with even the most elementary words in what has practically become our daily vocabulary.’
PC retells a Yiddish-Viennese joke about Palestine; and another about Count Bobby and the Kaiser at the races.
Peter Lawrence had told her that when his contract was concluded in Nuremberg he would go to England and work for PC’s father. He’d had a dream to this effect, but only later did he find out that her father was an engineer, a field he knew nothing about.
PC was impressed by her parent’s impression of Kim (whom they met when they visited PC in Switzerland). PC and Kim are concerned that some photos and film had gone astray.
She is having a winter frock made. She had bought outdoor shoes for Fran Vogel’s little boy. She is reading ‘The Natural History of Nonsense’ by Bergen Evans.
PC asks about a frock belonging to her mother. She has started playing bridge with Hans and Hanna.
She asks if they’d ever known ‘anything like this heatwave?’ In accordance with army regulations the pool had been shut [for the season], regardless of the weather.
PC had been thinking about the idea her parents had about a silver mug [engraved] with all the names of the countries she had been to, and the dates. She asks what would happen to Austria, Czechoslovakia and Switzerland.
She had just seen ‘The Sea Hawk’ (film).
‘The usual Saturday evening sounds of unhappy vomiting have started.’ She describes the occupants of the nearby room and their embrace of ‘The Great American Way of Life.’
PC asks her parents to find and send two slim volumes of Spanish poetry. She would write to ‘Small’ [her younger sister Jenny / Jennifer] that week.
Includes photos 1,4,6,8. No. 1 - PC sitting on Charles Macnamara. They are wearing swimming costumes. No. 4 - PC, Charles and another female sitting on a window ledge in The Eagle’s Nest. No. 6 – Viewpoint of the Bavarian Valley and Austrian mountains. No. 8 - Mountain road.
For the first time in many weeks her section is out of work, having cannily moved it to other sections who had been doing nothing. They then furiously ring up because ‘they are totally unfamiliar with even the most elementary words in what has practically become our daily vocabulary.’
PC retells a Yiddish-Viennese joke about Palestine; and another about Count Bobby and the Kaiser at the races.
Peter Lawrence had told her that when his contract was concluded in Nuremberg he would go to England and work for PC’s father. He’d had a dream to this effect, but only later did he find out that her father was an engineer, a field he knew nothing about.
PC was impressed by her parent’s impression of Kim (whom they met when they visited PC in Switzerland). PC and Kim are concerned that some photos and film had gone astray.
She is having a winter frock made. She had bought outdoor shoes for Fran Vogel’s little boy. She is reading ‘The Natural History of Nonsense’ by Bergen Evans.
PC asks about a frock belonging to her mother. She has started playing bridge with Hans and Hanna.
She asks if they’d ever known ‘anything like this heatwave?’ In accordance with army regulations the pool had been shut [for the season], regardless of the weather.
PC had been thinking about the idea her parents had about a silver mug [engraved] with all the names of the countries she had been to, and the dates. She asks what would happen to Austria, Czechoslovakia and Switzerland.
She had just seen ‘The Sea Hawk’ (film).
‘The usual Saturday evening sounds of unhappy vomiting have started.’ She describes the occupants of the nearby room and their embrace of ‘The Great American Way of Life.’
PC asks her parents to find and send two slim volumes of Spanish poetry. She would write to ‘Small’ [her younger sister Jenny / Jennifer] that week.
Includes photos 1,4,6,8. No. 1 - PC sitting on Charles Macnamara. They are wearing swimming costumes. No. 4 - PC, Charles and another female sitting on a window ledge in The Eagle’s Nest. No. 6 – Viewpoint of the Bavarian Valley and Austrian mountains. No. 8 - Mountain road.
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