Includes Margaret Joyce’s birth certificate; Gem’s from Shakespeare’s Comedies with diary entries for 4-6 June 1945 and a day-by-day list of events from 19 Nov 1945 to 3 Jan 1946 (the day of William Joyce’s execution); a handmade pamphlet containing epigrams and verse; a handmade pamphlet ‘The Gi...
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...