Case Study:
From Youth to Experience: Vera Brittain’s Work for Peace in Two World Wars
Creator:
Brittain, Vera
Source:
diary
Date:
31 December 1915
Collection/Fonds:
Contributer:
McMaster University Libraries
Rights:
Vera Brittain estate; McMaster University has a non-exclusive licence to publish this document.
Identifier:
00000301
Language:
eng
Type:
image
Format:
jpg
Transcript:
2 The Crescent,
Keymer,
Hassocks,
Sussex
New Year's Eve. 11.55
This time last year He was seeing me off on Charing Cross station after "David Copperfield" -- and I had just begun to realise I loved Him. To-day He is lying in the military cemetery at Louvencourt -- because a week ago He was wounded in action, and had just 24 hours of consciousness more and then went "to sleep in France." And I, who in impatience felt a fortnight ago that I could not wait another minute to see Him, must wait till all Eternity.
All has been given me, and all taken away again -- in one year.
So I wonder where we shall be -- what we shall all be doing -- if we all still shall be -- this time next year.