Item 01: Malcolm Shore Stanley correspondence, 8 December 1916-28 October 1918 - Page 49
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[Page 49]
Brightlingsea
Whit Monday
28.5.17
My dear Mother Father & Sister
We are still here & for the past 3 Sundays I have not applied for leave really England is delightful just now & it has been a real holiday to me to wander per cycle thro the lanes of Essex. Last Saturday I left here about 2 pm & cycled to Dedham on the River Stour about 12 miles, candidly I have never enjoyed a trip more & somehow my ideas of England have revised. I always considered it to be a country something like Lancashire somewhat bare but I find it to be a beautiful garden. Essex is suppposed to be the "garden of England" & it comes pretty close to it, this is the best time of the year the trees are in bloom & the country is a picture, Chestnuts, Lilac & Liburnums look bonney & the air is filled with perfume, I was much struck today with the sweetness of the hawthorn blossom at Dedham. I was astonished to find a glorious Wisteria in full flower it looked fine, one house was covered with it.