Item 1990/1 - Letter from Simon Blunt

1 item, paper

Letter from Simon Blunt, manuscript, six pages on three folios (one of a different size and variety from the other two), dated 28 January 1990, listing the correspondence of his father, Christopher Blunt, to Christopher's mother (i.e. Simon's grandmother). He said that his father wrote the early letters while stationed "in an anti-aircraft defence near London" and "his letters from France were censored and thus contain little detail of what he did". The list is chronological, giving the date and place from which he was writing, sometimes giving very brief details of his activities, from 7 September 1939 to Christmas 1945. The letter then describes relevant passages referring from the diary kept by Hilda Blunt during the War, which gives further details of Christopher's activities from 2 September 1939 to January 1945. On the third folio, the one that differs from the other two, Simon Blunt says that there are also five volumes of Christopher's war diaries, giving his views on events and confirming not only his role in working on the plans for the D-Day invasion but his great relief at the successful landing. There is still more detail, he says, in his war letters to Elisabeth [his wife and Simon's mother] and in her replies, but Simon says that he has not had time to go through them. He asks that IS return the first two pages of the letter, as they provide a useful summary of event.