52490: Letter: To Arthur and Edith Brittain.

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posted on 2024-05-01, 15:53 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

Describes Vera Brittain's arrival at the hospital in France / her lodgings and the running of the hospital / size and overburdened nature of the hospital / nursing German soldiers and their wounds / Edward Brittain in France / war as it effects Étaples / the sounds of the war.

History

Identifier

Creator

Brittain, Vera (1893-1970)

Date

5th August 1917

Date Created

05/08/1917

Spatial

Étaples , France

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Pen

Type

Letter | Letter

Pages

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Number of Pages

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Rights

The 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.

Repository Name

McMaster University, Mills Memorial Library, The William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections

Repository Address

1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L6, Canada

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive