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Nicholson, Jesse: correspondence


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 745

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Nicholson, Jesse: correspondence

Date(s): 1933-1939

Level of description: Collection level

Extent: 1 bundle

Name of creator(s): Nicholson | Jesse | fl 1933-1939 | teacher

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

This collection of correspondence consists mostly of letters written by a school teacher, Hellmut Lange from Chemnitz, Saxony, to an English woman, Miss Jessie Nicholson in South London between 1933 and August 1939.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Correspondence from Hellmut Lange to Jessie Nicholson including newspaper cuttings c1935; Correspondence from German friends to Jessie Nicholson. Whilst precious little is known about the recipient of the letters, they provide a valuable insight into the mentality of an ordinary German whose nationalist and antisemitic leanings develop into full-blown Nazi sympathy by the outbreak of war.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: German

System of arrangement:

Chronological

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Lange

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997

Date(s) of descriptions: November 2007


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Antisemitism | Racial discrimination
Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines
Press cuttings | Newspaper press | Press
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

Personal names
Lange | Hellmut | fl 1933-1939 | teacher
Nicholson | Jesse | fl 1933-1939 | teacher

Corporate names

Places