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Frankenburg, Charis. 9 letters (1941-1942) to Lady Agnes Adams, Lymm, England
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Miles, Connie. 2 letters (1941-1942) to Lady Agnes Adams, Shere, England
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Dawson, Belinda. 4 letters (1941-1942) to Lady Agnes Adams, Settle, England
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Belinda helped Patricia Ashley-Cooper take 34 children to Vancouver and Australia. She stayed with Lady Adams for eight weeks before returning to England. Her father is Geoffry Dawson, editor of The Times.
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Adams, Lady Agnes. 1 letter (1917) to Cornelius Van Hemert Engert, London, England
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She discusses her care of Belgium soldiers wounded in WWI, men coming home to be married and going back to the war, the raid that had people going into the tube for protection and her worry over his reported illness.
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Ashley Cooper, Kathleen. 31 letters (1939-1942) to Lady Agnes Adams, Hitchin, London, England
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Kathleen is wife of Lady Adams' nephew Patrick and an active volunteer at the Beaver Club which supports the troops. She gives great detail about wartime in London living at Claridges with her husband. She regrets she cannot speak of the many details she knows about because of her husband's position in the government.
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Ashley Cooper, Patricia. 9 letters (1941) to Lady Agnes Adams, Toronto, Canada; Hitchin, England
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Patricia is the daughter of Kathleen and Patrick Ashley Cooper and was presented in 1938. A newspaper photograph of her in her presentation gown is in the file of Kathleen Ashley Cooper. She brings a group of children out of England to safety in Canada and Australia. On her return she stays with Lady Adams in Hollywood for two months and afterwards returns to Canada where she works in an airplane factory. She eventually gets a flight back to England where she enrolls at Oxford to study to be a doctor.
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[Fielder]?, Maty. 1 letter (1942) to Lady Agnes Adams, Maidstone, England
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She works at a war nursery caring for children whose mothers work the night shift.
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