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65815: Letter To Susan Owen

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posted on 2024-04-19, 15:03 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

Discusses censoring letters and the area of the line his Regiment will shortly occupy. Describes his servant, and his Company Commanders. Describes inspecting soldiers' feet for trench-foot, the Victoria Cross, and his own appearance in waders. He concludes by listing some items he would like his mother to send him. This letter includes a code to tell his mother his location (hence the closing comment 'You need not ask where I am. I have told you as far as I can'. The trigger is the word 'mistletoe'. The reader must then record the second letter of the first words on the following lines. This is letter no. 479 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.

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Identifier

5382.cpd | 4799.jpg | WOHRLET479-1.jpg 4800.jpg | WOHRLET479-2.jpg 4801.jpg | WOHRLET479-3.jpg 4802.jpg | WOHRLET479-4.jpg 4803.jpg | WOHRLET479-5.jpg 4804.jpg | WOHRLET479-6.jpg

Creator

Owen, Wilfred (1893-1918)

Date

10th January 1917

Date Created

10/01/1917

Spatial

2nd Manchester Regiment, Serre, France

Source

Folio

Medium

Paper

Format

Pen

Type

Letter | Letter

Pages

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Number of Pages

6

Contributor

Jennifer Dunn

Rights

The Harry Ransom Center / The Wilfred Owen Literary Estate

Collection ID

Wilfred Owen Letters f.479-1 | Wilfred Owen Letters f.479-2

Repository Name

The Harry Ransom Center

Repository Address

The University of Texas at Austin, 21st and Guadalupe Streets, Austin, Texas, 78712, USA

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

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