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
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.