Description

A collection of letters and documents relating to the Brown family of Tiverton, Devon. Most of the letters are from the six children to their father’s second wife (mother to four of them, step-mother to the eldest two). There are a number of letters written from school, but most come from when the children were spread around the British Empire, and regularly wrote home with news and details of their lives. The four ‘boys’ also served in the First World War and some had long army careers.

The family comprises: Col. F.D.M. Brown, V.C. (Father), Mrs J. D. (Doris) Brown (mother/step-mother), Claude Russell Brown and Frank Brown (sons by FDMB’s first marriage), Wynyard (Wyn), Vincent (Kit), Llewyn (Llew) and Jessie (children from FDMB’s second marriage).

Letters written by Eric Brown to his mother; letters from Llewyn Brown to his mother

Envelope 1:

• Letters written by Eric Brown to his mother from service during World War I, in Abbotabad, 1914-1915.

Envelope 2:

• Letters written by Eric Brown to his mother, mostly form Abbotabad, 1916-1928.

Envelope 3:

• Letters written by Llewyn Brown to his mother from school and army trainng colleges, 1900-1914.

Envelope 4:

• Letters written by Llewyn Brown to his mother, 1919-1933. (Dates are omitted from most of the letters, so the order of the letters is not clear. They were written from his time in Pembroke College, Cambridge, survey work in Ghana in the 1920s, barracks in Chatham in the late 1920s, and a voyage to Singapore via Kandy in 1931. Llewyn Brown was a prisoner of war in World War I, captured in 1914, so there are no wartime letters in this collection.)