Letter by Ronald Hughes to his mother addressed from his home in Purley, Surrey, undated but later marked September 1939.
Letter concerns the situation in London on the outbreak of war, his job in the tea trade, some views on the possibility of air raids that he had heard and his own feelings that the war would be short.
From a collection of 78 letters and an invitation card by Henry Ronald Hughes (known as Ronald) (1907-1981), Royal Regiment of Artillery, written between September 1939 and 23 Feb 1946.
Associated with World War Two, Home Front (1939-1945) and World War Two, North West Europe (1944-1945).