Add MS 89161/3/18

Letters addressed to 'Mr and Mrs Bakewell' (1963-66), and letters of similar date addressed to Harriet Bakewell, from au pair Brigitte Tretera (signed 'Gitte'). There is a supplementary letter/Christmas card [c 2000] addressed to Joan Bakewell, expressing personal support following the breakdown of her second marriage to Jack Emery.

The letters are written from an address in Valencia, with the following dates (letters to Harriet are not here listed):

• 28 June 1963 (1 sheet);
• 2 September 1963 (4 sheets);
• 29 September 1963 (3 sheets);
• [1963] (1 bifolium and 1 sheet, with cutting about new single (1963) by Madeline Bell, 'I Long for Your Love');
• 7 November 1963 (1 bifolium);
• 28 February 1964 (2 bifolia and 1 sheet);
• [1964] (2 bifolia);
• [1964?] (2 bifolia), with thanks for 'the nice holiday I had whilst staying with you';
• 30 July 1964 (2 sheets, from 'Carlos & Gitte');
• 6 August 1964 (3 sheets, from 'Gitte and Carlos');
• 10 August 1964 (2 sheets, from 'Carlos & Gitte');
• 27 January 1965 (3 sheets, from 'Gitte & Carlos');
• 14 December 1965 (1 sheet, from Gitte & Carlos');
• 18 March 1966 (1 bifolium, from 'Gitte & Carlos', with air mail envelope);
• [c. 2000] (bespoke Christmas/New Year card with colour photograph of small snow-covered church adhered).

In The Centre of the Bed (2003, pp. 191-2), Bakewell refers to 'Gitte' as 'the first and the best' of several au pairs.