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Description: | Circa 608 ms letters written during the First World War, mainly from her homes in London and Hampshire, to her husband, principally during his Army service on the Western Front (October 1916 - December 1918) providing a detailed daily record of her activities, thoughts, feelings and emotions during their separation and containing useful references to changing attitudes to the War and social issues, family life, civilian conditions on the Home Front, particularly in high society, rationing, morale, air raids and the Armistice, and interesting descriptions of her work, as a Girl Guide Captain, as a volunteer helper and clerk for the Red Cross, and collating hospital data for the Committee for the Medical History of the War as well as a graphic account of the December 1918 General Election campaign in the parliamentary constituency of Swansea held by her father (Sir Alfred Mond). With the letters is a small group of official correspondence concerning her work for the Medical History (November 1917) and a photocopy of a ms letter from her husband reflecting on his command of the Inns of Court OTC (August 1923)
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1993-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Reading, Eva (Marchioness of) | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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