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1. Add MS 89481

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Title:
Papers of William and Margaret Joyce
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1911-c 2000
Extent:
29 files

2. Add MS 89481/1

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Title:
Letters sent from prison by William Joyce
Scope & Content:
Letters sent to Margaret Joyce and Ethel Scrimgeour during Joyce's incarceration, up to the morning of his execution.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1945-1946
Extent:
2 files

3. Add MS 89481/1/1

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Title:
Letters sent from prison by William Joyce to Margaret Joyce
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1945-1946
Extent:
141 letters (1 folder)

4. Add MS 89481/1/2

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Title:
Letters sent from prison by William Joyce to Ethel Scrimgeour
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1945-1946
Extent:
14 letters (1 folder)

5. Add MS 89481/2

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Title:
Papers relating to J A Cole's biography of William Joyce
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1958-1970
Extent:
3 folders

6. Add MS 89481/2/1

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Title:
Correspondence of Margaret Joyce and J A Cole
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1958-1964
Extent:
1 folder

7. Add MS 89481/2/2

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Title:
Extracts from William Joyce’s prison letters to Margaret Joyce
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960
Extent:
1 folder

8. Add MS 89481/2/3

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Title:
Miscellaneous papers relating to J A Cole’s biography of William Joyce
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1959-1965
Extent:
1 folder

9. Add MS 89481/3

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Title:
Papers of Margaret Joyce
Scope & Content:
Includes correspondence, diaries, notebooks, personal papers, and photographs.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1911-1968
Extent:
14 files

10. Add MS 89481/3/1

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Title:
Correspondence of Margaret Joyce
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1930s-1968
Extent:
1 folder