Case Study:
Violets from the Trenches: Selections from the Letters of Roland Leighton and Vera Brittain
Creator:
Leighton, Roland
Source:
letter
Date:
30 November 1915
Collection/Fonds:
Contributer:
McMaster University Libraries
Rights:
Copyright, public domain: McMaster University owns the rights to the archival copy of the digital image in TIFF format.
Identifier:
00001457-2
Language:
eng
Type:
image
Format:
jpg
Transcript:
taken its place, with the result that the trenches are half full of liquid mud, suddenly-thawed traverses have fallen and blocked the way with earth and sandbags, and everyone is wading around in what the Ordnance Stores describe as ‘boots, gum, thigh’. I am wearing some now, and came into the dug-out a moment or two ago looking like a peripatetic ball of mud, which proceeded to peel off various outer garments, shake some superfluous mud onto the floor, and sit down to write a letter. My top half is now more or less normal, but I am a sticky mess all down below. One cannot help feeling a child’s pleasure in getting muddy, though; and apart from the difficulties of locomotion I enjoy myself thoroughly.