PC/4/3/10 - Letter, Patricia Crampton to Wenda Focke, 10/3/1999
Reference code
PC/4/3/10
Level of description
Item
Title
Letter, Patricia Crampton to Wenda Focke, 10/3/1999
Date/s
10/3/1999
Quantity & Format
2 leaves Typescript
Personal name
Oxford and Asquith, Julian Edward George, Earl of, 1916-2011
Creator
Crampton, Patricia, 1925-2016Creator
Focke, Wenda, 1938-Administrative/Biographical history
recipient
Scope and content
Crampton asks about the detail and authorisation of the biography of Wolfgang Hildesheimer by Harry Lea. She continues with details of her relationship with Hildesheimer; Julian Oxford (the Earl of Oxford and Asquith) who knew Hildesheimer from Palestine and who’s wife Hildesheimer was at one time in love with.
Crampton and Hildesheimer go their separate ways after he realises her father’s strong objection to them marrying. Crampton describes their respective relationships which followed, and the meeting of her future husband.
She met Hildesheimer again in 1981 and remained friends since.
Crampton gives her opinion on Hildesheimer's fictional biography ‘Marbot’ and his other works.
Crampton and Hildesheimer go their separate ways after he realises her father’s strong objection to them marrying. Crampton describes their respective relationships which followed, and the meeting of her future husband.
She met Hildesheimer again in 1981 and remained friends since.
Crampton gives her opinion on Hildesheimer's fictional biography ‘Marbot’ and his other works.
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PC - Patricia Crampton Archive
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PC/4 - Wolfgang Hildesheimer
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PC/4/3 - Correspondence with Wenda Focke (Wolfgang Hildesheimer’s biographer)
- PC/4/3/10 - Letter, Patricia Crampton to Wenda Focke, 10/3/1999
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PC/4/3 - Correspondence with Wenda Focke (Wolfgang Hildesheimer’s biographer)
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PC/4 - Wolfgang Hildesheimer