Bertram Ratcliffe correspondence and typescript paper
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Bertram Ratcliffe correspondence and typescript paper
Classmark: LIDDLE/WW1/GS/1327/3
Creator(s): Ratcliffe, Bertram
Date(s): 1905-1957
Size and medium: 1 folder; manuscript papers
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/508188
Collection group(s): Liddle Collection
Description
This item is a separate accrual received in August 2016.
1. Letters from Bertram Ratcliffe to his brother Charles F. Ratcliffe, 21 September 1905, 11 August 1917-30 March 1919, mainly from Palestine and Cairo;
2. Letter from Bertram Ratcliffe to his mother, Florence, 7 September 1914;
3. Six telegrams to Bertram Ratcliffe’s mother Florence 1914, variously reporting him as missing, wounded. Final telegram from Bertram reporting his escape and safe arrival in London. Enquiry form relating to the telegrams showing an attempt to find out the exact situation;
4. Chapter 1, page 1 of 'Idle Warriors', a story by Bertram Ratcliffe dedicated to the memory of his brother, Victor (killed at the Somme, 1 July 1916). Typescript;
5. Letter to Bertram Ratcliffe 18 January 1934 from an unidentified French correspondent in Boulay, Moselle;
6. Letter from Andrée Marie-Hélène Vauthier to Bertram Ratcliffe before their marriage, undated, and three envelopes, c.1922;
7. Series of letters (10) from Bertram Ratcliffe to his wife, Andrée (usually addressed as his 'Petite Soeur' from 19 September 1944 to 4 October 1944, mainly from Paris. The last two include other family members addressed by nick-names (unidentified); 8. Letter containing genealogical information to Bertram Ratcliffe from his sister Lilian Howard-Kyan, 7 August 1957, with a reply from Bertram, 16 August, 1957.
Provenance
Donated by Diana B. R. Jones and Cecilia Cussans, 2016.
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