Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1939-1945 / (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
603 ff. Guarded and filed in two volumes.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Miss Vera K. Jones; Llandrindod; Purchase; 1996
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Some two hundred and forty letters, airgraphs and cards, 1939-45, from Vera K[athleen] Jones (b. 1916) to her family in Heybridge, co. Essex. Written mostly from Palestine and India, they describe her experiences while serving as a nursing sister with the Army during the Second World War.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions noted on the 'Modern papers - data protection' form issued with their Readers' Tickets.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
The contents of NLW MSS 22853-23691 are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 9 (Aberystwyth, 2003).
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
For typescript transcripts of selected letters, see NLW Facs. 763-4.
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Publication note
See Jones, Vera Kathleen: A time to remember ... (London, 2005), which records her nursing experiences in the East during the Second World War.
Notes area
Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23540C.
Alternative identifier(s)
Virtua system control number
Access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Jones, Vera Kathleen -- Correspondence (Subject)
Genre access points
Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
May 2009.
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IX (Aberystwyth, 2003);