Scope and Contents Adele and the children have been home for nearly three weeks and their parents had been to stay but had returned to London for a youth meeting their father was to take at Church. After the big bombings of London began, he had travelled to London to check on them after hearing no news and found them ready to leave, with the house on the corner of their road 'blown to bits'. Their parents were now staying with them in Cambridge which, apart from the occasional alarm, was so far spared from the...

Scope and Contents His work for the War Office in interesting but hard and he is working eight long days followed by two days off. Adele and the children have now returned from North Wales and he had managed work so he could spend a few days together. He is getting to know London well after living in different areas for work and has seen several exhibitions. There is a smell of wood smoke in the air from the burning of damaged bits of St Thomas's by demolition workers. While he is engaged in war work, the...

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Includes: personal papers and family correspondence, photographs and slides from travels, including holidays, speeches and reviews re Guthrie's various publications, with some limited papers from his tenure as Master.