Identity area
Reference code
Beaton/B/74
Unique identifier
GB 275 Beaton/B/74
Title
16th August, 1940 - 3rd August, 1941
Date(s)
- 16 August 1940–3 August 1941 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 item paper
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Black album notebook. Includes descriptions of the effects of the air raids in London and a pen portrait of Clementine Churchill (1885-1977): 16th August, 1940; 30th August, 1940; September, 1940; 3rd, 14th, 19th and 22nd October, 1940; 3rd and 10th November, 1940; 12th January, 1941; 20th February, 1941; 25th March, 1941; 3rd June, 1941; 3rd August, 1941. Also contains a melanex folder with notes written on Beaton's outward trip to New York in June 1940, aboard the Cunard White Star Samaria, and the return journey on the 2nd July, 1940.