Newspaper cuttings, flyers and leaflets relating to the Bloomsbury group. This file includes: - proofs for an unpublished book by Simon Watney entitled The Art of Vanessa Bell
Programme of readings and performances from a memorial event to celebrate the life of Chattie Salaman. This programme includes the full text of the speeches and letters about Chattie provided by friends and former students.
Letter of Mary, Queen of Scots, to Jacques Bochetel de la Forest, French ambassador to Queen Elizabeth I
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An original letter from Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1542, d. 1587; r. 1542-1567), to Jacques Bochetel de la Forest (d. 1595), French ambassador to Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603), sent from Carlisle and dated 26 June 1568. The letter asks the ambassador to send George Douglas as an emissary to F...
Includes letters sent by William Joyce to Margaret from prison while awaiting trial and, ultimately, execution; papers relating to J A Cole's biography of William Joyce; personal papers, photographs, and diaries (including those written in prison and displaced persons camp) of Margaret Joyce; ph...
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...
Letters sent from prison by William Joyce to Ethel Scrimgeour
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The letters cover the period 23 Jun 1945-2 Jan 1946, the day before Joyce's execution. Joyce writes of his pre-war visits to Ethel and her brother, Alex’s, houses; news of Joyce's wife, Margaret; his fears for post-war Germany and the British people, and of Russia’s intentions; his deep apprecia...
Papers relating to J A Cole's biography of William Joyce
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Contains correspondence of Cole and Margaret Joyce, extracts form William Joyce's prison letters to Margaret, and papers relating to publishing, royalties, and serialisation. Cole's biography, Lord Haw-Haw and William Joyce, was published by Faber and Faber in 1964.
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.