| | Abstract: | Dorothy Bulkley was a teacher at Cleveland Heights (Ohio) High School who visited England in 1937 and became friends with a number of British teachers, including Marjorie Illington, F.M. Pendry, and M. Ellis. Ms. Bulkley corresponded with her friends before, during and after World War II. The collection consists of correspondence and newspaper clippings. Topics of the correspondence include the evacuation of children from London, provisions for their care, shortages, rationing, English morale, the behavior of leaders, the torpedoing of the passenger ship Athenia in 1939, and travel accounts of pre-war Russia and post-war Scandinavia, especially Denmark. | |
