55987: War Diary: Tuesday May 18th 1918

online resource

posted on 2024-05-01, 16:47 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

Describes a letter from Roland Leighton describing billets and his position / possibility that he will be sent to Ypres / his anger over riots following the sinking of the 'Lusitania' / Vera Brittain's progress at university / a letter sent from her to Roland Leighton containing Rupert Brooke's '1914 Sonnets'.

History

Identifier

3073.cpd | 2811.jpg | VBMMU-May 18 - p1-2.jpg 2812.jpg | VBMMU-May 18 - p3.jpg

Creator

Brittain, Vera (1893-1970)

Date

15th May 1918

Date Created

18/05/1915

Spatial

Oxford, England

Source

Notebook

Medium

Paper

Format

Pen

Type

Diary | Diary

Pages

1, 3

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.

Collection ID

Vera Brittain Archive D5 | Vera Brittain Archive D5

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