Personal papers of Gordon Harris (1924-1999)
From: Letter in the AtticA collection of papers and photos relating to GH as a young man, including:
1. Application by Gordon Harris to be registered as a conscientious objector at the start of World War II
2. Letter from GH to himself on his 21st birthday, dated July 1945
3. Hand-produced magazine produced by GH for the Silver Jubilee
4. Three programmes of the ‘International Problems Discussion Group’, which GH organised. These date from 1945-46. Also one programme of the Peace Pledge Union, which met at the Friends Meeting House in Brighton East Sussex, in 1942-43, at which GH is listed as a speaker.
5. Hove High School exercise book which contains a spoof fashion book with drawings by GH, which illustrate ladies’ fashion during rationing, featuring clothes made out of seaweed and towels (no date, presumably from late 1930s-early 1940s – Gordon was aged 16 in 1940.)
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