Will you help my memory in this and if there is a spare copy of this that you know of write Ruth and tell her where? If it has not been photo stated I will take a chance and send one of the written copies you so nicely wrote out if I can find it and ask Mrs Fraser to make a copy and return it. If you think this is all too complicated and difficult and a stupid offer, I can ask Ruth to say there is no copy available, and that would be that. What would you do in a case like that?
Well now, what about you? Did you receive my last group of hectic unfinished letters?
I see your noble figure silhouetted against an unbroken horizon and mural sky -- alone in the wind wondering. Sometimes perturbed. Perhaps a little sad. Sometimes I steal up from behind and join you in a ten foot walk of ten miles and share your sadness, with you. Sometimes I see you laughing at the piano (a small one) with your "band" and I know you have some good fun and I join you unseen. The world seems so strange sometimes when viewed through our little spectroscope. Sometimes I look through the cosmoscope of Time and see the far distant future, in different states of being and I am comforted for I know the purpose of it all, and the spirits whisper 'patience' 'perseverance' "perfection".
Aldwinckle, Eric, Letter, [7 December 1944]
Case Study:
Creative Dialogue Across the Ocean: Eric Aldwinckle’s Letters to Harry Somers
Creator:
Aldwinckle, Eric
Source:
letter
Date:
[7 December 1944]
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Contributer:
McMaster University Libraries
Rights:
Copyright, public domain: McMaster University owns the rights to the archival copy of the digital image in TIFF format. Reproduced with the kind permission of Margaret Bridgman.
Identifier:
00001608-5
Language:
eng
Type:
image
Format:
jpg
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