scrapironflotilla:Letters from Major General W T Swan to his daughter Barbara and a picture sent to
scrapironflotilla:Letters from Major General W T Swan to his daughter Barbara and a picture sent to him on her 11th birthday in 1918. My favourite parts are the donkey outside his headquarters and the cat pissing on the stairs. I don’t care if it’s sappy. This kind of stuff is really lovely to see and wonderfully humanises these people. They loved their children and told them silly stories and talked about pets just as much as we do. And viewing them as prim and proper, uptight robots does them and us a disservice. -- source link
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