Correspondence

An old Abdulla Imperial Preference tin that once held 500 cigarettes. The lid was held down with string because of the pressure from inside - literally full to bursting with letters and telegrams between my grandmother and mother at home in the UK and my grandfather on active service in the Royal Engineers during the Second World War.

I've hardly scratched the surface but they do seem to span the war years - the earliest ones being written for my mother by my grandmother and later ones, like this, written in my mother's childish handwriting.

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