Letter: To Vera Brittain

Item

Title

Letter: To Vera Brittain

Identifier

5864.cpd

Creator

Leighton, Roland (1895-1915)

Subject

Brittain, Vera (1893 - 1970)

Abstract

Pleasure at reading Vera Brittain's letters / discusses Speech Day at school and meeting Vera / love-letters / requests Rupert Brooke's poems / discusses photographs / current location and the trenches / lack of changes from one day to the next in army life / talking to the men / riding the train in France / arriving at billets / a picturesque French village / the sunset / being sent to Headquarters and new position there.

Date

18th July 1915

Date Created

1915-07-18

Spatial Coverage

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Type

Letter

number of pages

8

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive