File 8 - 1948-1952

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IE OCL P131/2/2/4/8

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1948-1952

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  • 22 January 1948-18 November 1952 (Creation)

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274 pp

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(1890-1972)

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Sheelah Trench was born to Benjamin Bloomfield Trench and his wife Dora on 25 May 1890. She married Langlois Massy Lefroy, son of Col. Augustine Hugh leroy and Isabel Mary Heppelthwaite on 15 October 1924. They had no children and Sheelah died on 13 May 1972.

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This file contains letters sent to and received by Theodora Trench between 1948 and 1853.
The majority of the letters were sent by Sheelah Lefroy and Buffy [?].

In 1948 Buffy spent time travelling across Africa and sent Theodora letters describing places such as Mount Kenya, Nairobi and Kenya. Buffy also describes her dissatisfaction with the air mail system and her day to day timetable.

Within her letters Sheelah discusses topics such as Theodora's financial problems, hiring a couple to work for her, birthday wishes and foddering.

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