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- 1943 (Creation)
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151 letters paper
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Four airgraphs from Higgins in the Mediterranean, Philp Stevenson in Ceylon, David Furley in India, and Robbie Jennings in South East Asia. Letter from "Q" given to Pars by Derek Taunt in 1975. Letters from Derek Taunt who sends £5 for admission to degree of M.A. He hasn't been in Cambridge for two years and sees a good deal of Oliver Lawn and Jack Good at Bletchley. Letter from Barry Till. Letter from Peter Thrope regarding war degrees (he was recently married and Pars bought a wedding gift for them). Peter was friends with Freddy and a pupil of Pars'. Recommendations for M.A. Rahman (later Indian Ambassador to Germany in Bonn) and I.J. Good. The latter includes recommendations from Hardy and Besicovitch (Trinity)-also undated letters regarding Good from Hardy and Littlewood at Trinity. Letters from D.A.R. Young. Long letter from Denys in Loughborough. Letters from Michael Webster and Dennis Warren. Letter from Michael le Gros in Intelligence who is no longer learning Japanese and is starting with German. His experience is very school-like. Long letter from Helen Lawn who is starting her clinical work in Leeds where she is attending medical school. She describes her training. There are also many long letters from her brother Oliver who is at Bletchley with Taunt. He is also taking the war degree M.A. Letter from Harold Jeffries regarding a mathematical problem. Letters from Norman Jeeves at Bletchley. Pars reveals that he is feeling like a "has-been" at the College and that he is kept in the dark about College affairs. Letters from Harold Spencer Jones. Letters to and from R.H. Gray at St. Paul's vicarage. Letters from R.J. Getty who is also at Bletchley and visits Pars's mother and Aleathea (Miss Starling). Several letters from Pars's mother on Gilbert Road in Cambridge. Letters from Joan (cousin?) thanking Pars for a book. Her husband Bill is stationed in Italy. Several letters from Mary Shelna or Furness (Girton) who is a musician studying classics. She's been granted a year at the Royal College of Music. Long letter from Harold Elliott. Hugh Denham is also inquiring about the post-war degree. Letters from Bruce Brook who mentions the bombing of Berlin. Charles Dodd writes from the rectory at Derby. Letter from Pars's solicitor Booth regarding his will. Letters from Alan Barker. Letters from John Bargman. Letters from the Anglo-Austrian Society and BBC-Pars had written a letter to the Daily Telegraph which was printed regarding South Tirol. Robbie Jennings also writes from Jesus College, Oxford where he mentions that Tillyard has just come for a visit.