Evidence: | 'I read the letters [from Aunt Rachel] again and again as I strode furiously across the Parks, and the wind threw tears cold against my face. Often, reading her carefully rounded copperplate English - learnt at night school long ago - I heard again the words she had uttered through tears when I first told her of the scholarship: "If only your mother could have been spared to see you turn out like this..."' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | From: 1 Oct 1939 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Oxford | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Ralph Glasser |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 3 Apr 1916 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | later economist |
Religion: | Jewish |
Country of origin: | England, of Lithuanian extraction |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Rachel |
Title: | [letters from Glasser's aunt] |
Genre: | letters |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Letter |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 20327 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Ralph Glasser | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Gorbals Boy at Oxford | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1988 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 45 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Ralph Glasser, Gorbals Boy at Oxford (London, 1988), p. 45, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20327, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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