Includes a postcard from Margaret and William Joyce to ‘Mr and Mrs White’ [Margaret's parents, Ernest and Mabel White?], a poem addressed to ‘Bobbi’, a postcard from Hilde Puscz, a postcard from ‘Baby’, and correspondence with Ethel Scrimgeour.
Cole made extensive use of the information Margaret provided in these letters when he published his biography of William Joyce. Cole had met Margaret at Sennelager displaced persons camp, where he was chief interrogator and to where Margaret had been sent after Joyce’s execution.
Notebooks including one from 1942-1944 containing quotations, epigrams, and notes on language and metre in both Margaret and William Joyce’s hands. Another records an undated journey through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. The third item is a 1930 diary used for accounts with the name...
Miscellaneous papers relating to J A Cole’s biography of William Joyce
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Includes the memorandum of agreement between Margaret Joyce, J A Cole, and Faber and Faber, an outline chronology of William Joyce’s life, and papers relating to royalties and serialisation fees due to Margaret Joyce.
Extracts from William Joyce’s prison letters to Margaret Joyce
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The extracts were prepared by Margaret Joyce for use by J A Cole in his biography of William Joyce, and are heavily annotated by Cole. For Cole’s instructions to Margaret on the type of extracts and quotations he is looking for, see his letter of 5 Oct 1960 in Add MS 89481/2/1.
Letters sent from prison by William Joyce to Margaret Joyce
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The letters covering the period 16 Jun 1945 (19 days after the Joyces were captured) to 3 Jan 1946 (the day of Joyce's execution) range over a wide variety of subjects: philosophy, psychology, religion, and theology; English literature, metre and prosody; etymology and linguistics, and in partic...