Item 01: Malcolm Shore Stanley correspondence, 8 December 1916-28 October 1918 - Page 284
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[Page 284]
it wouldn't be worth coming to, give me a jolly good start with whips of hair raisers it'll do me.
During the past couple of days I have made for you a little thing, rough & coarse it looks but its really charming, thought it would do for the Dad to keep his cigarettes in. It is made from a portion of tree trunk which had been knocked over by a shell & was so pitted with shrapnel that I had difficulty in getting even this little piece whole.
[See image for drawing with the title "Flanders 1918".]
It comes from the most famous wood in Flanders & stood just behind the front line - held for 3 years, when I come home I will tell you its yarn. I hadn't any glue & would be glad if you would get the bottom glued in. I made it myself & the chaps have admired it a good deal. I would be glad if my Dad would accept it. I will get busy& dig up a box for it.
There isn't much doing, most of