Item 01: Malcolm Shore Stanley correspondence, 8 December 1916-28 October 1918 - Page 368
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[Page 368]
13.6.18
France
My dear Dad Mother & Florrie
I am happy to learn that you have suffered so little loss although the strain must have been considerable certainly not so great as it might have been after all the pleasure of finding all intact must also have had its effect. I am amused that you should worry & think that we are having a hard time here not a bit of it, the life here is 90% picnic its not so bad as you imagine for instance I haven't been within 1000 yds of the line since 7th of last month.
It gives me great pleasure to read that you have received the Jewel case, isn't it a beauty, the timber - oak - is as old as the hills & to my mind it has an intrinsic value far greater than any other souvenir of the war that you have so far received. Its associations run down thro the centuries & its presence at home will be a never ending topic for conversation & thought. Always it will call to mind that bruised little city up north. It was good of Florrie to refer to the bit of copper plate, I knew it would give you pleasure. The sapper's name was Hume & he cut it out in a little dug out. Yes it took him some time but he enjoyed doing the job, as a matter of fact he made one afterwards for his own people.
I had the hard luck to