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:
16 September 1940
Collection/Fonds:
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:
00001235-2
Language:
eng
Type:
image
Format:
jpg
Transcript:
[partial transcription]
(2)
I do all my own work here and live rather like a lumberman: frying something in a pan with one hand and drinking tea with the other....
Since the invasion of Norway, I’ve not been able to earn anything in the English newspapers of course....
Priscilla had a bomb just by her garden hedge at Cox Green: she has the misfortune to live next door to a flying school....
Sometimes one feels the dead are lucky … not to have lived to see this gamble for civilisation: life or death of the world....
With love from Colette.