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H. Scaife (EP) - Letter 28.3.18 re queues cured by rationing. "There will be no need to go hanging about in queues now. Another big problem over?. (Soldier's letter.)

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LMcLeod (DF)-Letters 30.1.17, 3.2.17, 6.2.17, 6.3.17.

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Barry, Dawson, Webb, Keene papers (DF) Set B(a) letters from E.B. Dawson to husband Nelson. Also Set B(c) Josephine Webb to E.B. Dawson - letter 4.1.19 re rationing in Ireland. Set B(ii) M. Keene to Edith Dawson - letter 17.8.17 c.f. U.S. Food Laws and English prices.

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See R.C.Hearn (EP) for letter 7.1.17 from Robert R. Broom (Cambridge scholar): "We are all much agitated in Cambridge about the potato - mighty committees are being formed and the most unlikely people are fancying themselves with pick and shovel". Talk of ploughing up University greens for potatoes.

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See in DF Durrell family for card showing support for voluntary rationing and also ration books

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W.D.Churchill (DF) sermons. April 1917, famine a possibility, harder work in local production needed

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B.H.Ryder (GS) letter 62 (6.2.18) has tried to get butter for his mother (in Cornwall). Plenty of it to eat but not to part with, "Devonshire" teas still available. Letter 66 (7.3.18?) will get sugar for his mother "though it savours rather of food hoarding".

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G.E.Carrington (GS) - Photocopy of letter 132 (24.2.18) written in England. "We start rations in London tomorrow and I haven't filled in any forms so I don't know what I shall get to eat" - Letter 134 (28.3.18) "?we are really feeling the pinch - sugar, meat and butter are rationed now and the scheme seems to be working"

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M.Corfield (DF) letter 3.5.17 - flour shortage "I feel almost frightened to eat bread" (See F.A.Corfield GS for letters)

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E.Lethem (DF) several references to shortage of meat. See summary of diaries 3.2.18 "I am now a vegetarian! I eat no meat and have no sugar?and no pastry made with white flour! I am a very patriotic person, I think"

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See in Butler, EE in RN a letter from Princess Alice of [???] 5.6.17 "There is great talk about rtationing and we are all having to be very careful, the new breadm what we are allowed to eat, is certainly nasty, but otherwise you would still not know there is a war on". [However the letter re active service of those known then belies this]

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J.Riddley (GS) Letters contain references to food. Also see his mothers letters - letter 20 (5.3.17) "not a potato to be bought here" [???-in-Marsh]

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M.B.McDonald (GS) Father's letters. Food shortage, eg 13.12.17, 11.1.18, 22.2.18, 12.4.18 meat coupons.

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