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Box Biggs Box 7

 Container

Contains 23 Results:

Card with envelope, 1942

 File — Box: Biggs Box 7
Reference code: 435/6/1/1
Scope and Contents

Card with envelope, placing Howard Biggs in Grade 4 (unfit for the armed forces). April/May 1942.

Dates: 1942

Letters to Howard Biggs regarding farm work., 1943

 File — Box: Biggs Box 7
Reference code: 435/6/1/2
Scope and Contents

10 letters, April-August 1943, to Howard Biggs regarding farm work. All are from the War Agricultural Executive Committee in various counties.

Dates: 1943

Letter from William Royle to Howard Biggs, 16 May 1943

 Item — Box: Biggs Box 7
Reference code: 435/6/1/3
Scope and Contents

Letter, dated 16/5/1943, from William Royle to Howard Biggs. Mentions the type of work that Howard Biggs would be allowed to do; also the fact that he's had rheumatic fever.

Dates: 16 May 1943

Letter to Howard Biggs, 28 June 1943

 Item — Box: Biggs Box 7
Reference code: 435/6/1/4
Scope and Contents

Letter dated 28 June 1943 to Howard Biggs regarding farm work.

Dates: 28 June 1943

Letters and receipts from London Regional Reconstruction Committee, 1943

 File — Box: Biggs Box 7
Reference code: 435/6/1/5
Scope and Contents

Letter and receipts from London Regional Reconstruction Committee, July 1943, for work done (3 weeks?) by Howard Biggs at the National Gallery.

Dates: 1943

Letter to Howard Biggs regarding job application, 10 September 1943

 Item — Box: Biggs Box 7
Reference code: 435/6/1/6
Scope and Contents

Letter, dated 10/09/1943, to Howard Biggs regarding job application.

Dates: 10 September 1943

Letter to Howard Biggs, 14 December 9143

 Item — Box: Biggs Box 7
Reference code: 435/6/1/7
Scope and Contents

Letter dated 14/12/1943, to Howard Biggs from Gabbitas, Thring & Co. Ltd Educational Agency and information about the agency.

Dates: 14 December 9143

Letters to Howard Biggs regarding job applications, 1 December 1943 - 31 December 1943

 File — Box: Biggs Box 7
Reference code: 435/6/1/8
Scope and Contents

Letters, December 1943, to Howard Biggs from four schools (Hollingbury Court, Upcott House, Hurstpierpoint College, Boxgrove School), regarding job applications.

Dates: 1 December 1943 - 31 December 1943

Bloomfield Hatch Farm, Berkshire, 1942

 File — Box: Biggs Box 7
Reference code: 435/6/2
Scope and Contents

Original letters, with transcriptions, from Howard Biggs to his parents, while he was living and working on Derek and Sally Stuckey's farm in the summer and autumn of 1942. Not all are dated, but they probably cover the period July to October 1942. 25 original letters plus transcriptions by Frank Love.

Dates: 1942

Sampford Courtenay, North Devon, Spring 1943, 1943

 File — Box: Biggs Box 7
Reference code: 435/6/3
Scope and Contents

Fifteen original letters from Howard Biggs to his mother (his father died in February 1943). The letters are not dated, so the order is unclear; they probably cover a period of a few weeks during Spring 1942; Howard Biggs appears to be convalescing. Also includes transcriptions of some of these letters by Frank Love.

Dates: 1943

Transcription of letters from Howard Biggs to his mother, 1943

 Item — Box: Biggs Box 7
Reference code: 435/6/4/1
Scope and Contents

Transcriptions of 11 letters from Howard Biggs to his mother, by Frank Love. The originals are not held. The letters are mostly undated, but probably cover the period October to December 1943. There is mention in one of the letters (number 11), of the need to report on his movements to the police.

Dates: 1943

Letter from E.E. Kenney to Howard Biggs, 12 January 1944

 Item — Box: Biggs Box 7
Reference code: 435/6/4/2
Scope and Contents

Letter dated 12 January 1944 from E. E. Kenney to Howard Biggs, dated 12 January 1944, with transcription.

Dates: 12 January 1944

Letters from Howard Biggs to his mother, 1944

 File — Box: Biggs Box 7
Reference code: 435/7/1/1
Scope and Contents

65 letters from Howard Biggs to his mother. In a letter dated 22 January 1944, Biggs reports that his Order of Detention under the 18B regulations, has been revoked. ALso includes transcripts of letters by Frank Love.

Dates: 1944

Document entitled 'Howard Biggs at Kingwell Court - letters to mother'

 Item — Box: Biggs Box 7
Reference code: 435/7/1/2
Scope and Contents

Includes comment on the content of the letters (435/7/1), and on Howard Biggs' health.

Dates: 1 January 1944 - 31 December 1944

Kingwell Court School group photograph, 1944

 Item — Box: Biggs Box 7
Reference code: 435/7/1/3
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Material relating to the year Biggs worked as a teacher at Kingwell Court School from January 1944.

Dates: 1944

Letters from pupils of Kingwell Court to Howard Biggs

 File — Box: Biggs Box 7
Reference code: 435/7/1/4
Scope and Contents

3 letters (one incomplete), from pupils to Howard Biggs, after he left the school.

Dates: 1 January 1944 - 31 December 1944

Letter from Stone House School to Howard Biggs, 7 October 1944

 File — Box: Biggs Box 7
Reference code: 435/7/2/1
Scope and Contents

Original letter, 7th October 1944, from Stone House School to Howard Biggs regarding him accepting a position there, plus transcription of letter.

Dates: 7 October 1944

Letters from Howard Biggs to his mother Ida Biggs, 1945

 File — Box: Biggs Box 7
Reference code: 435/7/2/2
Scope and Contents

25 original letters, dating from 1945, from Howard Biggs to his mother Ida Biggs. They are numbered 1 to 25. Also includes transcriptions of most of 21 of these letters by Frank Love.

Dates: 1945

Letters from Howard Biggs to his mother Ida Biggs, 1946

 File — Box: Biggs Box 7
Reference code: 435/7/2/3
Scope and Contents

21 original letters dating from 1946, from Howard Biggs to his mother Ida Biggs. Also includes transcriptions of 18 of these letters by Frank Love.

Dates: 1946

Letter to Howard Biggs from John H. Dunn-Yorker, 22 September 1967

 Item — Box: Biggs Box 7
Reference code: 435/7/2/4
Scope and Contents

Letter from John H. Dunn-Yorker, father of an ex-pupil of Stone House.

Dates: 22 September 1967