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Letters, numbered 192-193, 193a, 196a, 204, 213-229, 231-232, plus two unnumbered letters and five unnumbered postcards, from Geoffrey Woolley, usually from Washington DC on Times correspondent paper, but including a holiday to Paget, Bermuda (letters no's 214-217 and two postcards, May-June).

Letters from Geoffrey Woolley, usually on Times Washington correspondent paper, including the US presidential election and arrangements for returning to Britain. Gaps include Feb. and April-July. Some of these letters may be carbon copies or drafts of letters in L 1/23, or letters that have lost their envelopes.

Four letters from Geoffrey Woolley to his parents, from the British Press Club, Berlin.

Letters from Dakyn's House, Clifton School, during term time.

Letters from Dakyn's House, Clifton School, to his parents during term time (gap 20 March-23 Sept. inclusive). Also three letters to his brother Keith, 18 Jan., 11 June, 4 Dec.

Letters, usually from Dakyn's House, Clifton School, during term time (gap 2 April-23 Sept. inclusive). Also a letter from the World Scout Jamboree, Hungary (15 Aug.).

Letters, usually from Dakyn's House, Clifton School, during term time, 2 Jan.-29 July (gap 2 April-3 May inclusive). Also two telegrams, 1 May and 13 Oct.

Letters and cards from Geoffrey Woolley to his parents, from a [school?] trip to France and Germany, April 1934, with letters from Lille, visiting Vimy Ridge and Arras, then Freiburg, Titisee, Feldberg and Konstanz. Also a card from Suffolk (7 Aug.), and letters from a skiing trip to Ober-gurgl in the Austrian Tirol, 24 Dec. 1934-6 Jan. 1935. A page of an account of the journey from Lille to Freiburg, the remains of a letter or a diary, has been added.

Original file of letters, including from Monnowdean, Monmouth, Jan.-Nov. 1938, Cathedral Road, Cardiff, Feb. 1939, and St Georges Square, London SW1, June-Sept. 1939, then Shirley Park, East Croydon, with the 99th (London Welsh) A.A. Regiment, Sept. 1939-May 1940, and Scarborough, co. York, with the 125th O.C.T.U., May 1940. The letters include the start of the Second World War, including signing up with Lloyd James the announcer, 1 Sept. 1939. Six letters in envelopes found loose have been added.

Loose letters and cards from Geoffrey Woolley to his parents, mainly Jan. 1938-July 1940 (gap Aug. 1940-April 1943 inclusive).

Letters from his mother, comprising a postcard to Geoffrey at Dakyns' House, Clifton College, 2[-] May 1934 (postmark), and letters, April 1941-March 1942, usually written weekly on Mondays from Rhyd Hall, Tredegar, with occasional postscripts from his father. Gap June 1934-March 1941 inclusive.

Letters from his mother, usually at Rhyd Hall, Tredegar, often written weekly, with occasional postscripts from his father.

Letters from his mother, Jan.-Aug. 1945, usually from Rhyd Hall, Tredegar, usually written weekly, with occasional postscripts from his father. Also three loose letters, dated 5 Oct. 1947, 11 March 1951, and 'Friday night'.

Letters from his father, from Rhyd Hall, Tredegar, usually written weekly, usually with postscripts from his mother.

Letters from his father, from Rhyd Hall, Tredegar, usually written weekly, usually with postscripts from his mother.

Letters from his father, usually from Rhyd Hall, Tredegar, usually written weekly, and usually with postscripts from his mother. Includes descriptions of VE and VJ celebrations in Tredegar, also the 1945 general election, including the death of Leslie Ruthven Pym, MP for Monmouth. Also a loose letter dated 11 March 1951 (no. 159), and an undated picture of W. D. Woolley, 'president of the society', torn out of a Tredegar publication. Gap Sept. 1945-Feb. 1951 inclusive.

Original bundle of letters to Geoffrey Woolley from friends, relations and others, including from 2/Lt H. R. Picton-James RA of 1st Reg. RHA, May-Dec. 1941, and Picton-James's parents following his death, Aug. 1942; Jeffrey Morgan of Sarisbury, co. Hants, Sept. 1934; Woolley's grandmother and godmother of Caerleon, co. Mon., June 1923-June 1935; Kriegsgefangenenpost Postkarte (PoW postcards) from Lt Peter Fraser, Offizierlager VI B (later VII B), Jan. 1942-April 1943, and Major Rodney Gee, Offizierlager IX A/H, April-June 1944; Sylvia Fraser, Peter's mother, when he was missing presumed dead, June 1940; Nancy Gee, Rodney's [?wife], discussing books to send out, June 1941; Woolley's grandmother of Stroud, co. Glos, April [1941]-March [1942]; Betty Morgan of Oxford, wife of Denys Morgan (d. 7 Feb. 1943); Richard A. ('Silent Richard') Crossley-Holland, Jan. 1941-Feb. 1984; Geoff of Llandrindod, including May 1943, enclosing several letters to Geoff from various others, June 1941-Aug. 1947; John Boon of Mills & Boon, Sept. 1938-Sept. 1940; and John D. K. Marshall, Sept. 1939-Nov.1942. The letters include several replies to letters of condolence from Woolley. Also a letter from Jack Jones of Rhiwbina, discussing his 'The man David' and 'Me and mine', "my publisher thinks it is a better book than my 'Unfinished journey' and he is going to publish it as soon as paper supplies will enable him to", and the state of Welsh theatre, "moribund ... London's dead donkeys follow each other on to the stage", Oct. 1944. Also some other papers, including a report on the occupation of installations NE of Leese [Kampfstoffabrik Leese chemical manufacturing plant], April 1945. This file mostly comprises a bundle originally labelled 'Wartime letters', although it also included some dating to his school and university days.