Letter: To Margaret Blunden.
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| Author | Blunden, Edmund (1896-1974) |
|---|---|
| Title | Letter: To Margaret Blunden. |
| Notes | Letter from Edmund Blunden to his mother Margaret. He writes describing returning to the battalion after signalling practice / apologizes for having failed to write before / hopes to be able to continue sending cheques / recent German advances / beginning a diary, accidently / meeting T. L. Wright Housey, a friend from school, who assures him that London has not been destroyed by zeppelin raids / jokes about little brothers and sisters and their wasting money on sweets and recent photographs sent from Plymouth by Margaret / reports no leave as yet / reading Frank Morris's 'The Pit' / discusses music and recent damage to some battalion gramaphone records / a sultry night / wishing for some ale. |
| Item Date | 12th July 1916 |
| Creation place | Somme (Google Maps) |
| File type | Image |
| Item source | Leaf |
| Item medium | Paper |
| Writing medium | Pencil |
| Content | Letter |
| Item height | 203 |
| Item width | 143 |
| Repository name | Blunden Family Private Collection |
| Cataloguer | Alisa Miller |
| Copyright | The Edmund Blunden Literary Estate |
| Reference URL | http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/9397 |
