Identity area
Reference code
WIL/1
Title
Personal Correspondence
Date(s)
- 1908-1946 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
76 items, paper
Context area
Name of creator
(d 1947)
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Scope and content
Correspondence to Edwin Wilcox. Included are a number of letters from the writer and journalist Edmund Clerihew Bentley, written from the Daily News and, later, the Daily Telegraph, on a range of political and social themes. Also includes a series of correspondence concerning the attempts to provide foreign language training for British troops during the Second World War. Other items include a selection of correspondence regarding family and personal affairs, a collection of postcards, and a selection of miscellaneous notes.
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Language of material
- English