Letters from Ethel Curlewis to Lorna Hughes, 15 May 1933 - 19 May 1949, with memoir titled `My mother's memories of Mrs Curlewis'

MLMSS 7836

fonds

15 May 1933-9th May 1949

826839

0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder) - manuscript and typescript

Lorna Hughes, nee Ingle, was sent from Cessnock to Sydney during the Depression. She obtained work as a housemaid for the children's writer, Ethel Curlewis, at Avenel, Mosman, in the late 1920s.

Reference:
Library correspondence file
Australian Dictionary of Biography Online. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/ (accessed October 20, 2008)

These letters (20), including transcriptions, refer to news and events regarding the Curlewis and Hughes families, including the stringencies of daily life during the war. One letter dated 18 Sept. 1942 mentions Ethel Curlewis' son, Adrian, then an army officer as missing in Malaya.