StorageSiteUCL Institute of Education
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Reference Number FY/B/1/1
TitleLetters from Isabel Fry to Eugenie and Sprou
Datec.1930-1937
DescriptionCorrespondence.
Card to "My Dear One", addressed to Madame J.S. Dubios, Brussels. Undated. Content appears to regard an emotional estrangement.
Clipped bundle of letters to Eugenie. 1930-1931. Content regarding moving house, Eugenie's children, Fry's feelings towards Eugenie, Nativity play.
Letter and poem to Eugenie, 1930.
Letter to Eugnie, July 30 1931. Among other things mentions Fry's intense feelings for Eugenie, also Avice and Halide.
Letter to Eugenie, undated. Discusses unemployment in England, concerns about Tory.
Letter to Eugenie, 9 February 1933. Discusses leaving Mayrotorne and parting from Avice, launch of the Friends of Peace & Disarmament.
Letter to Eugenie, June 30. Re. visiting arrangements.
Card to Eugnie, 27 June 1933. Requesting Eugenie receive Marion Richardson as a visitor.
Letter to Eugenie, July 13 1933. Content includes questions on Marion Richardson, a new farm school for Fry to teach children whose 'homes are wrong in one way or another' [Church Farm], Eugenie's children, Mlle. Hamaide, Margery's round the world tour.
Letter to Eugenie, 1 October 1933. Talks about the school - one child has been taken back home and Fry talks about their parents being 'half educated', Avice is not communicating with Fry, concerns about Hitler's 'war spirit' and the 'shadow of the future world'.
Letter to Eugenie, undated. Discusses presents sent by Eugenie, religion, choice, starting a school for German Jewish and half Jewish refugees.
Letter to Spirou, but envelope addressed to Madame J.S. Dubois, December 9 1935. Content related to Abyssinian affair.
Letter to Spirou, 2 September 1935. Regarding death of Astrid [of Sweden, Belgian Queen], also news of Italy's 'war lies' and systemic prosecution of Jewish people in Germany.
Letter to Spirou, undated. Fry cannot visit as planned.
Letter to Eugenie, 22 June 1930. Content re. visit to Sweden, describes buildings, aspects of culture.
Letters to Spirou, May 1937. Concern about how to start the 'new world' in a positive way.
Many of these letters mention the second world war. All are addressed to Madame J.S. Dubois.
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