Items (626 total)
Letter dated 28 September 1942
Manuscript letter including references to everyday life in the army, including meals, flies, in the desert near Cairo and Alexandria.
Letter dated 28 September 1943
Manuscript letter mentioning every day life in Sicily, a party at the camp site with members of a travelling concert party including a performance by Gracie Fields and another tea party held by local Italian aristocracy. Also including references to…
Letter dated 29 August 1942
Manuscript letter including references to everyday life in the army camps and three South African coins. Also mentioning receiving a cable or cablegram with news of his daughter's birth and wandering how the baby looks like.
Letter dated 29 January 1943
Manuscript letter from Tripoli including references to his experience, an ordered list of the poems sent, a small sketch. Also mentioning helping an Italian family living in the city and local street sellers.
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Letter dated 30 April 1943
Manuscript letter mentioning life in the army in Tunisia, the North African war, Tunis and ancient Carthage, Jerusalem, the film 'Desert Victory' by Boulting and the Bishop's Stortford's cinema, African birds.
Letter dated 31 December 1942: draft of poems 'Soldiers' Prayer' and 'For Alemein [Alamein]'
Manuscript letter including drafts of the poems 'Soldiers' Prayer' and 'For Alemein' and references to the life in the desert with the army.
Letter dated 31 July 1943
Manuscript letter from Sicily.
Letter dated 4 April 1943
Manuscript letter including references to the publication of the poems and royalties. Envelope also including a newscutting, a Christmas card and a couple of letters to John, some poems by Sarah Stailey: 'The Return of Persephone', 'Beware!',…
Letter dated 4 March 1943
Manuscript letter mentioning the structure of the poem 'Soldier's Prayer', the desert, Suez and the river Nile.
Letter dated 5 September 1943
Manuscript letter mentioning every day life in Sicily and his having started another poem. Also including references to Messina, Castel Mola, his visit to Taormina and a Greek Theatre, Castiglione di Sicilia, Etna and the landscape.
Letter dated 6 February 1943
Manuscript letter from Tripoli including the story of an Italian family, from Sicily, who had moved in Libya in 1912, after the Italo-Turkish war. The narration provides an insight in the recent history of the Libyan colony and in the current war as…
Letter dated 8 July 1943
Manuscript letter.
Letter dated 9 December 1942
Manuscript letter including references to the battle of El Alamein, the life in the desert, birds, his finances, banks, hotels and Cairo. Also discussing good books including mentions of James Elroy Flecker, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, 'A…
Letter dated 9 November 1942: draft of poem 'Orchids'
Manuscript letter written after the battle of Al Alamein including a draft of the poem 'Orchids/Song in the Desert' and references to the battle and the retreat of the Germans and Italians.
Letter from Sister Kitty Witham concerning the Great Lisbon Earthquake
Manuscript letter from Sister Kitty Witham to her mother, in which she describes the Great Earthquake in Lisbon of 1755 and its impact on the community at Syon Abbey. A paragraph at the end of the letter is addressed to 'Aunt Ashmall'.
Letter from Sister Kitty Witham concerning the Great Lisbon Earthquake (transcript)
Transcript of a letter from Sister Kitty Witham to her mother, in which she describes the Great Earthquake in Lisbon of 1755 and its impact on the community at Syon Abbey. A paragraph at the end of the letter is addressed to 'Aunt Ashmall'.
Lopes Hall
Photograph of exterior of Lopes Hall. Lopes Hall ,originally named Highlands, was named after Sir Henry Lopes, Deputy President and benefactor. It opened in 1930 as halls for 70 women and was extended in 1933.
Lopes Hall and Annexe exterior
General exterior view.
Lopes Hall common room
Photograph of students in Lopes Hall common room