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War Diary: Monday December 27th.

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AuthorBrittain, Vera (1893-1970)
TitleWar Diary: Monday December 27th.
NotesTranscribed letter from Father A. B. Purdie to Mrs. Leighton describing the circumstances of her son Roland Leighton's death in France. The letter was received on 2 January 1916, and Vera Brittain has copied it into her diary, along with a series of poems and extracted verses on death and remembrance.
Item Date27th December 1915
Creation placeBrighton, England (Google Maps)
File typeCompound Object
Item sourceNotebook
Item mediumPaper
Writing mediumPen
ContentDiary
Collection IDVera Brittain Archive
Repository nameMcMaster University, Mills Memorial Library, The William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections
Repository address
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton
Ontario
L8S 4L6
Canada
Repository URLhttp://library.mcmaster.ca/
CataloguerAlisa Miller
CopyrightThe digitised Vera Brittain material may be used for educational purposes only and remains the copyright at all times of the Literary Executors for the Vera Brittain Estate, 1970 and The Vera Brittain Fonds, McMaster University Library. In any distribution or display of the material this acknowledgment must be clearly indicated.
Digital repositoryThe First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Reference URLhttp://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/3033