Just a short letter before I go to bed. The Battalion is back in the trenches now and I am writing in the dugout that I share with the doctor. It is very comfortable (possessing among other things an easy chair, stove, an oil lamp, a table complete with tablecloth) and I am feeling pleasantly tired but not actually sleepy. Through the door I can see little mounds of snow that are the parapets of trenches, a short stretch of railway line, and a very brilliant full moon. I wonder what you are doing. Asleep, I hope – or sitting in front of a fire in blue and white striped pyjamas? I should so like to see you in blue and white pyjamas. You are always very correctly dressed when I find you; and usually somewhere near a railway station, n’est-ce pas? I once saw you in a dressing gown with your hair down your back playing an accompaniment for Edward in the Buxton drawing room. Do you remember?
….. I am often regretful that you should be at the Hospital after all. I picture you as
Leighton, Roland, Letter, 26 November 1915
Case Study:
Violets from the Trenches: Selections from the Letters of Roland Leighton and Vera Brittain
Creator:
Leighton, Roland
Source:
letter
Date:
26 November 1915
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Contributer:
McMaster University Libraries
Rights:
Copyright, public domain: McMaster University owns the rights to the archival copy of the digital image in TIFF format.
Identifier:
00001454
Language:
eng
Type:
image, audio
Format:
jpg mp3
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