Brittain, Vera, Letter, 14 September 1915

Letter, Vera Brittain dated September 14, 1915.
Description: 
Letter to Roland Leighton

Tabs

Case Study: 
Violets from the Trenches: Selections from the Letters of Roland Leighton and Vera Brittain
Creator: 
Brittain, Vera
Source: 
letter
Date: 
14 September 1915
Place: Buxton
Collection/Fonds: 
Contributer: 
McMaster University Libraries
Rights: 
Vera Brittain estate; McMaster University has a non-exclusive licence to publish this document.

Identifier: 
00001438
Language: 
eng
Type: 
image, audio
Format: 
jpg mp3
Transcript: 

[partial transcription; text matches the audio, not the original letter]
I could have wept this morning to think of you, my poor darling, in that charnel house of a trench ... ‘Of such is the glorious panoply of War’. And this is what you propose to make your trade? Never. It seems to me now that this War is scarcely for victory at all, for even if victory comes it will be at the cost of so much else, so many greater things, that it will be scarcely worth having. No, this War will only justify itself if it puts an end to all the horror & barbarism & retrogression of War for ever.
It has always been to me a thing to