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Title A name given to the resource Donaldson, David David Donaldson D Donaldson Description An account of the resource 309 Items and a sub-collection of 51 items. Concerns Royal Air Force career of Wing Commander David Donaldson DSO and bar, DFC. A pilot, he joined the Royal Air Force Reserve in 1934. Mobilized in 1939. he undertook tours on 149, 57 and 156 and 192 Squadrons. He was photographed by Cecil Beaton at RAF Mildenhall in 1941. Collection contains a large number of letters to and from family members, friends as well as Royal Air Force personnel. Also included are personal and service documents, and his logbooks. In addition, there are photographs of family, service personnel and aircraft. After the war he became a solicitor. The collection also contains an oral history interview with Frances Grundy, his daughter. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Anna Frances Grundy and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-06-02 2022-10-17 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Donaldson, D Grundy, AF Transcribed document A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Transcription Text transcribed from audio recording or document [underlined] Sunday [/underlined] THE ELMS, PEAR TREE AVENUE, BITTERNE, SOUTHAMPTON. Dearest Dave Just a note to send you a line to give you my blessing before [word deleted] I see you, I should like to have written so that you had it today Sunday, but dreadful to relate could not get time to sit down & write you an unhurried letter, I have been using my brain too much this last week & making too many speeches & my poor spirit has had to look after itself with dire results – But I think you know enough of what I feel about religion without [page break] my saying any more, how intensely I feel “things spiritual” are the only part of life that really matter, & that that connection is one of the surest indications of the existence of God, that one has to spend all one's life searching for him by developing that [word deleted] spiritual side, I feel the search goes on like a temperature chart you know [illustration of jagged chart] with high marks and very low ones but I always [underlined] hope [/underlined] in the end it reaches a high point, its so hard to be bothered about it, [inserted] especially [/inserted] when one is young & other things are so important – but I cannot tell you how [indecipherable word] [page break] 2 people who are what I call the really truly good they make me feel at once “The peace of God which passes all understanding” & that to me means they are so sure of what they are after - & knowing that are afraid of nothing, [inserted] living their lives with [/inserted] eternal life as a background to the whole of this one – I am going to give you another translation of the bible, unless you can think of anything else you want, also Addresses by Lord Haldane, because I think he is [inserted] or was [/inserted] what is a rare combination, [character deleted] a very great intellect & a still greater soul, [page break] so many nimble little intellects ate always so busy doing away with the soul, so its a great comfort to find a really large one proving conclusively its [word deleted] [inserted] existence [/inserted] – you may not enjoy them now but I think some day you will enjoy them - We shall be over by 1.45 tomorrow & will call at Oak Braces, if you are not there go straight on to chapel This does not seem a very what shall I say affectionate letter, but I expect you would dislike me if I told you how fond I am of you, in spite of the home truths we hurl at one another from time to time, but I am! Your very loving Mother [page break] I thgink probably Alistair & Poga will come to lunch with you at Oak Braces – Daddy, Nannie, Dorothy & myself will arrive after lunch about 1.45. Norman is not coming. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter to David Donaldson from his mother Description An account of the resource Catches up with family news, activities and her beliefs, giving him her thoughts on some spiritual matters prior to his confirmation and telling him confirmaton presents (books) she will give him. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource F Donaldson Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Five page handwritten letter Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Correspondence Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EDonaldsonFIDonaldsonDW301130 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Civilian Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain England--Hampshire England--Southampton Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930-11-30 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Frances Grundy Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1930-12 faith