Items (122 total)
- Collection: Letters of John Jarmain
Aerogram dated 29 May 1943: amendments to poems 'Tobruk' and 'Tel El Eisa'
Extent 1 leaf
Manuscript air letter including alterations to the poems 'Tobruk' and 'Tel El Eisa'.
Aerogram dated 31 May 1943
Manuscript air letter mentioning the Christening of his daughter and life in the camp in Algeria, North Africa.
Letter dated 2 June 1943
Manuscript letter about his daugher's Christening.
Aerogram dated 3 June 1943
Manuscript air letter including references to every day like in the camp
Aerogram dated 4 June 1943
Manuscript air letter from Algeria about how the poet has changed by living in the desert during the war.
Aerogram dated 6 June 1943
Manuscript air letter from Algeria including references to every day like in the training camp.
Aerogram dated 8 June 1943
Manuscript air letter including references to every day like in the camp on the North African coast, a shark and a collection of poems.
Aerogram dated 10 June 1943
Manuscript letter from Algeria.
Letter dated 11 June 1943
Manuscript letter mentioning life in the Algerian training camp and some pictures of Djijielli and Chabet Gorgi in Algeria, Medenine in Tunisia, Leptis Magna in Libya, Sollum [Sallum] in Egypt.
Aerogram dated 12 June 1943
Manuscript air letter from Algeria.
Aerogram dated 14 June 1943
Manuscript air letter including references to the battle at Enfidaville in Tunisia, dinner parties at an hotel nearby the camp and nurses.
Aerogram dated 16 June 1943
Manuscript air letter including references to the Mareth line, the 'Desert Victory' and the difficulties of communicating by letters.
Aerogram dated 1 July 1943
Manuscript air letter including references to the potential copyright issues of publishing in the USA. Letters 109-113 were written on board of a ship waiting to set out for Sicily.
Aerogram dated 6 July 1943
Manuscript air letter.
Aerogram dated 8 July 1943
Manuscript air letter about soldiers' income and taxes during the war.
Letter dated 8 July 1943
Manuscript letter.
Aerogram dated 12 July 1943
Manuscript air letter including references to incomes and finances during war time. The Allied invasion of Sicily had also began including the 51st Division which landed on the South East coast of Sicily.
Aerogram dated 16 July 1943
Manuscript air letter including references to life in the camp in Sicily, mentioning dust, his jeep and camouflage techniques.
Aerogram dated 23 July 1943
Manuscript air letter including references to life in the camp in Sicily.
Aerogram dated 24 July 1943
Manuscript air letter including references to his battery having been in Sicily since the invasion began, his life on board of the ship during the sea journey to Italy, Mount Etna, landscape and Syracuse.