Items (29 total)

Manuscript letter card mentioning Taormina and various entertainments planned before moving the camp to a different site. Concerts with local musicians, tea parties, a bean feast and dinner parties with dances, orchestra and cabaret.

Manuscript letter card mentioning a parachute which has been sent to his wife and a bean feast with his battery including a concert party with a jazz band.

Manuscript letter card mentioning the moving of the camp site to a place with electricity and Bianca Scafidi and her story.

Manuscript letter card from Sicily.

Manuscript letter card mentioning Collins, the publication of his poems, the preparation of another poem, life in the army and learning Italian in Sicily.

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Manuscript air letter from Sicily about Jarmain's children and wife, including a draft of the poem ''Faith'.

Manuscript letter card from Sicily about war propaganda. Also including references to the Italian shops and his daughter.

Manuscript letter card mentioning spending some days of leave at Sparta with Bianca and her family, Messina, Stromboli and some of his poems, 'Tobruk' and 'Alamein'.

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Transcripts of 120 letters of the poet John Jarmain to his wife Beryl, with whom he regularly corresponded after travelling to North Africa and South Italy during the Second World War. The letters are dated from 17 June 1942 to 04 November 1943.…