Family correspondence
- Date:
- 1921-1978
- Reference:
- PP/EBC/A.200-A.217
- Part of:
- Chain, Professor Sir Ernst Boris
- Archives and manuscripts
Collection contents
About this work
Publication/Creation
1921-1978
Physical description
18 files (N.B.: there is no file A.209)
Biographical note
Very little first-hand material survives about Chain's own family and early days. His Russian-born father Michael, an industrial chemist died in 1919 when Chain was thirteen, and the family knew hard times during the inflationary 1920s when his mother Margarete had to let rooms in her house. After Chain settled in Britain he sent money home as far as he was able (see A.29, A.33) but his family's circumstances remained poor. His mother and sister Hedwig did not survive the Second World War (see A.205 for references to the last dates at which they were seen alive).