| Description | Largely wartime correspondence concerning evacuees from Gravesend. Includes letters to and from Helen Elmhirst about the evacuees hostel at Aller Park; Jenny Gertz's dance 'Scheme for the Evacuees'; Extracts from the minute book of the Dartington Parish Council concerning evacuees in the Parish, 1940-1943; other research material about Dartington evacuees from local history sources in Gravesend and Dartington; correspondence between Dorothy Elmhirst and Lady Butterfield arranging gifts of clothing from America; list of occupants of the Old Barton; list of names of those attending the 1941 Christmas party; a letter to Dorothy Elmhirst (on lecture tour in America) from Grace Drake with information about evacuees at Dartington, a newsletter, 'Dart Views' produced by Aller Park evacuees May 1942; letters to Marjorie Fogden from parents of evacuees and a letter from Fogden to Mrs R Marshall of Greenwich. Includes some later records of the 50th anniversary reunion of evacuees, and a later reminiscence by Alec Brown about his years as an evacuee at Dartington, 1942-1945. |