Malleson, Constance [aka O'Niel, Colette], Letter, 26 November 1939

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Description: 
to Bertrand Russell

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Case Study: 
“Life or Death of the World”: Letters from England and Scandinavia, 1939-1945
Creator: 
Malleson, Constance [aka O'Niel, Colette]
Source: 
letter
Date: 
26 November 1939
Place: Blagdon, England
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Contributer: 
McMaster University Libraries
Rights: 
Copyright, public domain: McMaster University owns the rights to the archival copy of the digital image in TIFF format.

Identifier: 
00001232
Language: 
eng
Type: 
image
Format: 
jpg
Transcript: 

[partial transcription]
Blagdon, 26 November [1939]
Dearest Bertie,
Newspapers are full of advertisements asking for old letters and account books for making into new paper: telephone directories are to be renewed less often as they consume 12,000 tons of paper a year. Scrap iron etc. is also advertised for in the papers. The accounts of what Jews are suffering all over Europe makes terrible reading. And all that shifting of vast populations like droves of cattle – and the struggles of small innocent neutrals to survive. Still no rationing here, though in Norway people have only a quarter lb. coffee a week and a ½ lb. sugar.… [Here] rich people can get all they want and also lay up stores – Piccadilly shops advertise long-keeping butter in tins – and I think the butter ration will be tiny when it at last begins, also sugar.