Reference
AU10/70/1
Title
Letter from Christine M.Osborne of Maulden to Andrew Underwood:
- she had lived at Oaklands for three years whilst her mother, Elsie Inskip, was in service with Alfred Forbes Brown;
- other servants were the gardener Woodgate and Shotbolt, who doubled as the writer's nanny;
- how she had run from her bath to help her mother answer the door when Sir Anthony Wingfield called;
- she had been given their sweet rations by billeted soldier at Oaklands;
- her mother died seven years and her father two weeks before;
- encloses photographs of Alfred Brown and asks advice about magazines, newspapers and artefacts
Date free text
14 Oct 1985
Production date
From: 1940 To: 1985
Level of description
item