Box Blaess Box 2
Contains 18 Results:
Letter from Madeleine Blaess to Auntie Margaret, from Paris, 10 January 1940
Letter outlining events and activities attended by Blaess over the Christmas holidays.
Journal of Madeleine Blaess, written in the form of letters to her parents, October 1940 - September 1944
Diary kept by Blaess during the period she was forced to remain in France due to the German Occupation. The journal acted as a replacement letter to her parents in York. Written in French Blaess barely missed an entry for almost four years. Includes pressed leaf.
A translation of Blaess' diary into English by Wendy Michallat is available through the White Rose University Press website (see external documents below).
Letters to Madeleine Blaess’s mother from the War Organisation of the British Red Cross and Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Foreign Relations Department, June 1940 - July 1941
Letters giving details of the Red Cross Postal Message Scheme and providing information on the wellbeing of Madeleine Blaess.
Letter to Madeleine Blaess’s parents from Yolande Blot (Madeleine’s cousin) in France, asking whether or not Madeleine had returned to England and telling of her own evacuation to Brittany with the Ministère de l’Information, 15 June 1940
A four page letter with envelope, showing that it was opened en route, and marked as received on 13 Aug 1940.
Letters to Madeleine Blaess’s mother from Dorothy Clarke, an Australian friend of Madeleine’s telling of Madeleine’s plans to return to England and giving news from other friends in Paris, July 1940 - June 1941
Manuscript nos. 52 and 53 have 3 pages each; no. 54-56 have 2 pages each.
Letter to Madeleine Blaess’s father from Ivor Arnold, Professor of French at the University of Leeds, asking for news of Madeleine, 11 June 1940
Correspondence and other material relating to Blaess' time in Paris during the Second World War when Paris was under German military occupation.
Letters to Madeleine Blaess’s parents from Jean Inebnit, Professor at the University of Leeds, asking for and giving news of Madeleine, October 1940 - August 1942
Correspondence and other material relating to Blaess' time in Paris during the Second World War when Paris was under German military occupation.
Letter to Madeleine Blaess’s father from the Consulat Générale de France à Londres, in response to an enquiry about Madeleine’s circumstances in Paris, 20 June 1940
Correspondence and other material relating to Blaess' time in Paris during the Second World War when Paris was under German military occupation.
Letter to Madeleine Blaess’s father from the BBC Publications Relations Division, in response to an enquiry about tracing Madeleine in France, 1 July 1940
Correspondence and other material relating to Blaess' time in Paris during the Second World War when Paris was under German military occupation.
Letters to Madeleine Blaess’s mother from E.P. Bingham whose sister had also remained in Paris, July 1940 and September 1940
Correspondence and other material relating to Blaess' time in Paris during the Second World War when Paris was under German military occupation.
Letter to Madeleine Blaess’s mother from Mother Aquinas, St. Mary’s Convent, Egton Bridge, 21 September 1940
Includes envelope.
Letter to Madeleine Blaess’s mother from Mother de Sales, the Bar Convent, York, 22 September 1940
Correspondence and other material relating to Blaess' time in Paris during the Second World War when Paris was under German military occupation.
Letter to Madeleine Blaess’s mother from Sister M. Michael, St. Mary’s Convent, York, 22 September 1940
Correspondence and other material relating to Blaess' time in Paris during the Second World War when Paris was under German military occupation.
Notebook containing transcript by Madeleine Blaess of part of Peredur ab Efrawc edited by Kuno Meyer, March 1942, April 1943
Correspondence and other material relating to Blaess' time in Paris during the Second World War when Paris was under German military occupation.
Notebook containing transcript by Madeleine Blaess of part of Pwyll Pendeuic Dyuet, early 1940s
Undated notebook containing handwritten notes.
Notebook containing transcript by Madeleine Blaess of part of Manawydan uab Llyr, Math uab Mathonwy and Breuddwyd Maxen, early 1940s
Undated notebook containing handwritten notes.
Notebook containing research notes by Madeleine Blaess on Buile Suibne, edited by James G. O’Keeffe, early 1940s
Undated notebook containing handwritten notes.
Notebook containing research notes by Madeleine Blaess on Celtic archaeology, 1943 - 1944
Dated 'Lentier, 1943 - 1944'.