Item 01: Malcolm Shore Stanley correspondence, 8 December 1916-28 October 1918 - Page 51
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air raids during the past couple of days but we have seen nothing of them, the papers here give no definite information.
I have no less than 68 P.C.s for Florrie, will send them parcel post one of these days. By the next mail I expect to hear that you have received my wire. Where did you hang my sword? I would like to know. I do hope you will give it a clean & keep it bright, use some form of metal polish do not use emery. Use purple ribband for hanging it up, some day I will bring my revolver to keep it company. Have you hung up my native weapons, they look awfully nice when arranged. I had them round my room in Adelaide, in the shade of the lamp & a quiet pipe I loved to sit & wonder what scenes they had passed thro, some of them belonged to tribes now extinct, its just the old story "where the white man treads". The tribe which cut the lizard on the rocks (see one of my photos) has long since gone, most interesting little photo that one & I treasured it very much. I am getting enlargements of some