Brittain, Vera, Letter, 19 June 1915

Letter, Vera Brittain dated June 19, 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: 
19 June 1915
Place: Oxford
Collection/Fonds: 
Contributer: 
McMaster University Libraries
Rights: 
Vera Brittain estate; McMaster University has a non-exclusive licence to publish this document.

Identifier: 
00001437-2
Language: 
eng
Type: 
image
Format: 
jpg
Transcript: 

[Partial transcription matches audio not the original letter]
Sometimes I have felt that I could forgive the future everything if it would let me see you once again. (I don’t think I should really; I think I should forgive it still less, but still that is sometimes what I have thought.) At other times I feel I couldn’t bear to see you again till the war is over; that though I am out to face hard things there is just one I couldn’t endure, and that is to live over again the early morning of March 19th on Buxton railway station. But now the possibility of having to do so begins to arise, I know that it is more than worth while -- even this. One is willing to pay the bitterness of death for the sweetness of life.