Identity area
Reference code
Beaton/A/A1/95/12
Unique identifier
GB 275 Beaton/A/A1/95/12
Title
Autograph letter signed to Beaton
Date(s)
- 19 Oct. 1944–19 Oct. 1945 (Circa. No year given) (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
6p paper
Context area
Name of creator
(1883-1966)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Hopes that Beaton is somewhere nice. Feels encouraged by 'the spectacular news, but horrified by the casualities'. Discusses the damage caused by the 'birds'. The people in the southern villages deserve medals. Has been reading James Agate's new work. Discusses Agate's diaries and the pleasure they bring her. Mrs Keppel's villa in Florence was looted after it had been bombed. Feels that many English people are 'not hard enough about the Germans'. Discusses France. There are 'no commodities to be had but scent'. Complains of some of the people she has met, writing that 'war hasn't touched them except that it has annoyed them'.