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Add MS 88938/2/1/7/1
- Record Id:
- 040-000786357
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000673106
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001201.0x0003e0
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88938/2/1/7/1
- Title:
- Margaret Braidwood
- Scope & Content:
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Two letters from Margaret Braidwood, British Columbia:
- 30 November 1996 (typescript), pleased that Ballard is 'interested in the numerous papers and bits and pieces' from the files of her husband, William Braidwood, Chairman of the British Residents' Association 'from just before the Far East War until the war ended'. Braidwood considered Ballard's father to have been 'his closest friend during those difficult times'.
- 6 January 1997 (typescript, with original envelope), providing biographical information about William Braidwood, died 1986 (Margaret Braidwood was Braidwood's second wife, married 1979).
This file also includes:
- a group photograph supplied by Braidwood (with its original annotated envelope and with an enlargement of it) taken in Lunghua Camp after 'a tea-party' on 7 November 1945 (it does not include members of the Ballard family);
- a summary list, in Ballard's hand, of the documents supplied by Margaret Braidwood.
For the document enclosures, see Add MS 88938/2/1/7/2-4).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000673106
036-000680428
037-000680429
038-000786310
040-000786357 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88938 : The Papers of J. G. Ballard
Add MS 88938/2 : J G Ballard: Correspondence
Add MS 88938/2/1 : J G Ballard: Letters Received
Add MS 88938/2/1/7 : Letters from Margaret Braidwood, Enclosing Documents Concerning Lunghua Camp, Shanghai
Add MS 88938/2/1/7/1 : Margaret Braidwood - Hierarchy:
- 032-000673106[0002]/036-000680428[0001]/037-000680429[0007]/038-000786310[0001]/040-000786357
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88938
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1945
- End Date:
- 1997
- Date Range:
- 1945-1997
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Includes two black and white photographs: 40 x 55mm and (enlargement of same) 110 x 160mm. Both photographs are annotated on the verso as supplied to Braidwood by C K Wei.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)