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68469: Letter: To Margaret Blunden.

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posted on 2024-05-01, 13:44 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

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.

History

Identifier

9398.cpd | 9030.jpg | EBFAM - 017.jpg 9031.jpg | EBFAM - 018.jpg 9032.jpg | EBFAM - 019.jpg

Creator

Blunden, Edmund (1896-1974)

Date

12th July 1916

Date Created

12/07/1916

Temporal Date

12/07/1916

Spatial

Somme

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Pencil

Type

Letter | Letter

Pages

1, 2, 3

Number of Pages

3

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Rights

The Edmund Blunden Literary Estate

Repository Name

Blunden Family Private Collection

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