Case Study:
Violets from the Trenches: Selections from the Letters of Roland Leighton and Vera Brittain
Creator:
Brittain, Vera
Source:
letter
Date:
15 December 1915
Collection/Fonds:
Contributer:
McMaster University Libraries
Rights:
Vera Brittain estate; McMaster University has a non-exclusive licence to publish this document.
Identifier:
00001443
Language:
eng
Type:
image, audio
Format:
jpg mp3
Transcript:
[partial transcription; text matches the audio, not the original letter]
I would like to write you a specially nice letter to-night, because I expect this will be the one I promised you should have for Christmas -- that is, if posts are delayed as much as we have been warned they will be. I would be nicer still, perhaps, if I were not a little disquieted by vague rumours that are going round here of a big movement impending on the Western front, and a consequent cancelling of all leaves in the near future...