Aldwinckle, Eric, Letter, [20 December 1944]

Letter, Eric Aldwinckle.
Description: 
Letter to Harry Somers

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Case Study: 
Creative Dialogue Across the Ocean: Eric Aldwinckle’s Letters to Harry Somers
Creator: 
Aldwinckle, Eric
Source: 
letter
Date: 
[20 December 1944]
Place: RCAF Headquarters, London
Collection/Fonds: 
Contributer: 
McMaster University Libraries
Rights: 
Copyright, public domain: McMaster University owns the rights to the archival copy of the digital image in TIFF format. Reproduced with the kind permission of Margaret Bridgman.

Identifier: 
00001610
Language: 
eng
Type: 
image
Format: 
jpg
Transcript: 

Dear Harry,
Thank you warmly for your sincere wishes penned by the funeral manuscript so cold. I promise you I shall think of those things -- and not only on Christmas, but week after week, thanks to you and such as you who made it possible for me to know the truth.
I hope it is granted that you shall see and hear as much Beauty as I have and more. You will undoubtedly see as much ugliness, but the shining theorems in white chalk must need have a blackboard to reveal them. You and I and such as we, shall form a group inspiring those who despair or doubt or weaken in their struggle, to lead on those unpolluted followers of tomorrow for our gifts of sensitivity, insight and ideals are powers with which we are expected to build a square cut corner stone and foundations for a monument which shall reach perfection, revealing the Master of ourselves within us, to all who have laboured to this end. But we must be patient, for destruction is not complete; rubble must be cleared. We shall not see more than our cornerstones in this life and perhaps not the group but