WW2 Interest.-

Correspondence between Mr and Mrs Beer from Roundlay, Leeds, and their three sons. An early one from Anthony W. Beer, reads in part “Yesterday was an awful day. From about 11am it poured and we had a gale, I should think, torrential rain and a terribly high wind. But this morning is it very fine and sunny. We had the 2 minutes silence yesterday at 11 o’clock. It is the Common Entrance today and tomorrow…”, autograph letter signed, two pages, 4to, Lancing College, Sussex, Tuesday November 12th; another from Micheal reads in part “...I’ve just been to Moor Monkton Church. We had a lantern slide on Thursday about Jerusalem… It is very fine here. We play football at 12 o’clock every day and on Wednesdays and Saturdays when we play in the afternoon”, three pages, mailing folds, 8vo, Red House School, York, 5 October, 1930; with a letter to Anthony Beer, regarding his M.A. at Hertford College, form the bursar Mr W.L. Ferrar, reads in part “An M.A. is an expensive degree. I can still recall my own [?] when I took my own M.A. It has always seemed to me not worth a man’s while if he has but little money, to take the degree unless he moves in academic circles - when it definitely is worth while… The College struggles along on was + another. The drop in tuition fees, degree fees and payments of terminal dues has been understandable: many men find the payment of dues, which they are quite willing to pay if only as a gesture to their college in times of peace, a burden that must be dropped in war time.” two pages, mailing folds, 4to, Hertford College, Oxford, 31st august 1941; another from John Swifty “I am very sorry to announce you that, your friend 2 LT John Sucheki was killed in action, the 16th August 1944 in Jort (Normandy).”, one page, mailing folds, 8vo, Polish Forces, December 16th 1944; and a quantity of others (quantity)