Letters from Edmund Blunden to Mary Blunden (née Daines) | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

Letters from Edmund Blunden to Mary Blunden (née Daines)

Shelfmark

MS. 6441/1

Summary

Comprises:

Letters from Stowlangtoft and 1st Eastern General Hospital, Cambridge, 8 May-21 Jul 1918 [Edmund and Mary married 1 Jun 1918]. Letter of 14 May 1918 includes autograph manuscript poem for Mary 'You'll always be my little love...'

Letters from Newhaven and [near Douai and unspecified], 22 Oct-30 Nov 1918.

Letters from [unspecified and Arras], 2 Dec-17 Dec 1918.

Letters from [unspecified, but near Arras], 19 Dec-31 Dec 1918, with 'certificate' of love for Mary [n.d.].

Letter from Edmund Blunden to 'dear old Doc.', Stowlangtoft, 16 Apr 1918.

Original paper packet and label, with note by Mary Blunden, annotated by Mary Clare Ross [n.d.].