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ALS from Cambridge.

Solicits interest in accompanying papers (not present). The Women Citizens Committee have taken over the council dining room. TRG has spent some time in College attending to various matters.

ALS from Cambridge

  • Glover/A/A2/312
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  • 1941 (Otherwise undated but a note in another hand states that it was posted on 24 Oct 1941)
  • Part of Papers of Terrot Reavely Glover

An uncensored letter and thoughts about letters and censorship; newspaper war reporting; stale news; on cramp; meetings with people and a night watchman; family visits; Queens University centenary as reported in the Daily Telegraph; typesetting TRG's volume of essays; reading this and that; coaching Greek; family news and the problems of travel to and from Ireland, censorship; emigration to a desert island.

ALS from Cambridge.

No information of Mrs White's illness; news of Janet and TRG's sister Dorothy; 'practice planes'; lumbago and the weather; on not paying excess postage and the receipt of tea; publishing news; circumstances of the death of a cousin.

ALS from Cambridge [67 Glisson Road].

An arrival of hens at the Glover residence and the consuming of the resultant eggs; arrivals and departures (temporary); Mrs Glover gives an address on Mothers in Industry but is frustrated by the activities of the Chair; TRG narrates a similar experience and avoids killing the perpetrator at a subsequent meeting; the arrival of tea and photographs (not present) remind TRG of family resemblances; a child's rescue inspires thoughts about competancy and how people change; TRG attends a country church anniversary and finds the people there interesting; a 'capital review' in the New Statesman by CM Bowyer with thoughts about him; lamentation of the death of Lois Saunders with memories of her; mispronunciations and what they say about the perpetrator; defending John Sinclair; delayed breakfast; reflecting that TRG could have been in Canada throughout the war had circumstances been different; a copy of the latest book sent but not to be passed on.

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