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Manuscripts
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Lady Agnes introduces them to the bearer of this letter, Christopher Dykes, who was a friend and a Commonwealth Fellow at Cal Tech.
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Professor and Mrs. Smith lived at the Cal Tech Athenaeum while he worked at the Huntington Library. She remarks about the "toughened up" spirit of the English people but also how very hard the war is on the elderly.
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Mrs. Birdstein took children to safety in America, husband in Sydney in the air ministry. They were at Cal Tech in 1930s and knew the Millikens.
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There were over 260 "alerts" with sirens which is very unnerving. She feels Satan has been let loose upon the earth.
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Reverend Monk was a friend of Sir John's. He philosophizes about war and evil people and his great admiration of President Roosevelt.
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He gives an amusing account of moving to a small cottage to avoid having to share his home with mothers and "under fives" evacuees from London.
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