Treleaven, John Monckton, Lieutenant (E), 1927-1951.

The collection mainly consists of the private correspondence between John Treleaven and his future wife June Kellett between January 1946 and April 1950, and during the first months of their marriage, up to December 1950. The letters chart the course of a romance in post-war Britain and provide detailed observations of naval life. There are some photographs and newspaper cuttings relating to the couple and the HMS AFFRAY disaster. There are also some notes and transcriptions for a possible book on Treleaven. An abridged collection of almost one thousand of the letters was compiled by June Tower and published by The Grassgarth Press, Kendal, in 2009 (see PBH2662 in the Caird Library catalogue).