| Title |
ALICE BERRINGTON Née Sanford |
| Reference |
S |
| Covering Dates |
[1940]-[54] |
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| Trinity/Monk/S contains: |
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S1
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Marguerite [ ] to Alice Berrington. Description of arrival at Tidworth House as a VAD.
1 doc. |
1940s |
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S2
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Marguerite [ ] to Alice Berrington. Description of life in an army hospital.
1 doc. |
1940s |
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S3
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Marguerite [ ] to Alice Berrington. New Commandant has made life more strict in hospital, difficulties of returning late to the dormitory, have been attached to the RAMC, pay improving.
1 doc. |
1940s |
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S4
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. Has applied for administration of Henry Monk's estate.
1 doc. |
16 Feb 1941 |
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S5
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. Servants in wartime, funeral of Frederick Hicks [Bishop of Lincoln].
1 doc. |
3 Mar 1941 |
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S6
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. Recommends a maid, items belonging to Henry Monk to be sold at Harrods, clearing out silver and offering AB some.
1 doc. |
1 May 1941 |
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S7
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. Please she has secured a servant, London much changed, houses down everywhere, roads blocked, nearly every church has been hit, bought Henry's fishing rods at Harrod's sale for his nephews, a Monk bracelet was sold at Christie's for £810.
1 doc. |
16 May 1941 |
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S8
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. Douglas staying as he was sent to Hatfield with an aeroplane, farm business, rearrangement of rooms at Eaton Mansions.
1 doc. |
7 Sep 1941 |
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S9
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. Pleased to hear that AB has found a good maid, asks if she will take on another who is respectable but in need of employment, plans to augment AB's share of Henry Monk's estate.
1 doc. |
25 Nov 1941 |
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S10
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. Arrangements for the settlement of Henry Monk's estate.
1 doc. |
[March] 1942 |
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S11
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. Judith Wilberforce has given birth to a daughter, busy time with visitors, new Irish maid getting on well, Arthur [Monk] missing feared dead.
1 doc. |
22 Mar 1942 |
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S12
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. Encloses a cheque for monies in settlement of Henry's estate.
1 doc. |
14 Apr 1942 |
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S13
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington.
1 doc. |
2 May 1942 |
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S14
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. Encloses deed for £218.1.6. bank stock.
1 doc. |
8 May 1942 |
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S15
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. Thinks "Pev" [Peveril Sanford] a prisoner, "Bill" has been killed.
1 doc. |
22 May 1943 |
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S16
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. Princess Olga Mickeladze seriously ill, Bill killed by a random shot while in a car, Robin Hooper returned from Morocco with fruit, no news of Peveril Sanford.
1 doc. |
3 Jun 1943 |
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S17
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington.
1 doc. |
9 Aug 1943 |
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S18
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. Encloses money from Henry's estate owed for rents on mines, light nights deter the German bombers.
1 doc. |
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S19
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. Bomb strike close by [perhaps that of Sloans Square Unerground Station] shook the house and damaged windows.
1 doc. |
c 1944 |
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S20
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. Painting maps for the troops with the WVS, effects of air raids.
1 doc. |
4 Mar 1944 |
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S21
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington.
1 doc. |
5 Mar 1944 |
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S22
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. Does not wish to leave London unless it becomes necessary, disgust at the miners' strike, Government defeat on the Education Bill "unfortunate", attended a meeting on Greek Independence Day.
1 doc. |
21 Mar 1944 |
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S23
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. Sends cheque from money from Henry's estate.
1 doc. |
10 Apr 1944 |
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S24
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington.
1 doc. |
25 Apr 1944 |
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S25
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington.
1 doc. |
30 Apr 1944 |
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S26
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington.
1 doc. |
1 Jun 1944 |
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S27
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. Stephen Sanford promoted to Lieutenant Colonel.
1 doc. |
15 Jun 1944 |
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S28
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. Thanks for gooseberries, will spend holiday with AB if possible, defenders of London have stopped firing at flying bombs, the Guard's Chapel was destroyed by a bomb during service and all inside killed, Stephen Sanford took an American surgeon on a night trip around London by bus.
1 doc. |
22 Jun 1944 |
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S29
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington.
1 doc. |
28 Jun 1944 |
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S30
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. Thinks travelling to Usk will be too difficult, servants are very nervous of the air raids, Sloane Court hit, Irene Wilberforce had temporary windows blown out again.
1 doc. |
5 Jul 1944 |
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S31
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington 11 Jul [1944]. |
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S32
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. To use Sybil Legh's Service Flat in Eaton Mansions.
1 doc. |
22 Jul 1944 |
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S33
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. Comfortable in Sybil Legh's flat, servants very obliging, saving sugar for AB, sorry to hear AB' bees are eating her honey, Meesdon Manor destroyed by a bomb that fell on the tennis court.
1 doc. |
30 Jul 1944 |
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S34
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington.
1 doc. |
8 Aug 1944 |
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S35
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington.
1 doc. |
15 Aug 1944 |
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S36
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. Doodlebugs appear heavier and do more damage, wishes to move to better accommodation, two maids would be enough staff for JM, wonders how "Robin" will get on with the Duff Coopers as he has not been much of a success elsewhere.
1 doc. |
27 Sep 1944 |
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S37
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington.
1 doc. |
25 Jan 1945 |
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S38
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. Counties adopting bombed areas of London and sending furniture and other goods.
1 doc. |
22 Feb 1945 |
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S39
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. Trust funds.
1 doc. |
26 Feb 1945 |
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S40
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. Received final payment from the Coal Commission for rents on mines.
1 doc. |
30 Mar 1945 |
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S41
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. Stephen Sanford to go to Norway soon.
1 doc. |
6 May 1945 |
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S42
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. Tom Dinsdale badly wounded in arm and leg.
1 doc. |
22 May 1945 |
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S43
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. Ann Bowes Lyon's wedding, reception for Bernard Montgomery in Paris.
1 doc. |
30 May 1945 |
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S44
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington 21 Jun 19[45]. |
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S45
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. Election did not go as well as Conservatives hoped, result depends on the army vote.
1 doc. |
9 Jul 1945 |
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S46
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. All sorry Churchill is not Prime Minister, thinks Duncan Sandys would be an unpopular Parliamentary candidate.
1 doc. |
17 Aug 1945 |
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S47
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington.
1 doc. |
19 Jul 1945 |
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S48
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. It remains unsettled as to whether Stephen Sanford goes to Germany.
1 doc. |
8 Oct 1945 |
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S49
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington 20 Dec 1945. |
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S50
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington. Christmas presents, Stephen to be offered something by the War Office, servants going to see Peter Pan for their New Year's Eve treat.
1 doc. |
26 Dec 1945 |
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S51
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M Basham to Alice Berrington. Pleased that AB is now a County Officer Grade I.
1 doc. |
23 Nov 1949 |
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S52
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Thelma Glyn Hughers to Alice Berrington. Returns samples of rugs made using thrums [samples wanting].
1 doc. |
14 Dec 1949 |
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S53
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Julia Monk to Alice Berrington.
1 doc. |
9 Jul 1950 |
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S54
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M Goodkind to Alice Berrington. Thanks for her services on the Homecraft Sub-Committee of the Monmouthshire War Pensions Committee.
1 doc. |
26 Jan 1952 |
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S55
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B J Stephens to Alice Berrington. Thanks for her services on the Homecraft Sub-Committee of the Monmouthshire War Pensions Committee.
1 doc. |
4 Feb 1952 |
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S56
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Journal of a visit to Africa.
1 vol. |
[1953–54] |
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S57
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Journal of a visit to Africa.
1 vol. |
[1954] |
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S58
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Photographs and postcards of a visit to Africa.
34 docs. |
[1954] |
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