20 April 1945
The ice is all gone now from the lake, the birds are singing, the wild white anemone is starry in the ditches -- and I've just picked the very first bunch of them for my writing table. I opened up my bedroom a few weeks ago -- and it's a treat to wake up there of a morning instead of in the tiny kitchen. Today I took a can of boiling water down to the edge of the lake and had a glorious scrub and then plopped into the ice-cold lake -- the first time since November. But nobody who hasn't lived through the long dark winter can imagine the intoxication of the early spring here -- so bare compared to all the lilac and daffs and other joys of English spring. The ice is gone a month earlier than usual, too. But the green shoots of daffs are no more than an inch above the earth -- yet. Nearly every time I get a letter from Finland they say, "We heard B.R. on the radio last night." I, of course, haven't one; nor telephone either.
Malleson, Constance [aka O'Niel, Colette], Letter, 20 April 1945
Case Study:
“Life or Death of the World”: Letters from England and Scandinavia, 1939-1945
Creator:
Malleson, Constance [aka O'Niel, Colette]
Source:
letter
Date:
20 April 1945
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Contributer:
McMaster University Libraries
Rights:
Copyright, public domain: McMaster University owns the rights to the archival copy of the digital image in TIFF format.
Identifier:
00001229
Language:
eng
Type:
image
Format:
jpg
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