Item 01: Malcolm Shore Stanley correspondence, 8 December 1916-28 October 1918 - Page 253
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hope they will evade the censor & submarines, sometimes I think it would be a good scheme to keep them till I go to England on leave.
I am worried about any odds & ends I may have already sent & would be happy if you would enumerate anything you may receive & let me know, sometimes the idea comes to my mind that my Dad could show them in his window as an additional attraction. The Fritz gas mask & case should be interesting they were picked up on the battlefields of Flanders, he could put it on a wax head in the window & explain that they cannot compare in efficiency to our own, they are not proof against the gases we send over to Fritz.
The souvenirs are similar to those made by our men to fill in their spare moments, as soon as I