5-page letter from Dad to George upon receiving news of his wounds

• May 30, 2018 20:46:42 Thomas A. Lingner

  May 27, Sunday Afternoon 3.0 pm  The Shrubbery, Gordon Rd. Hornsey. N. 8

  
  

  My Dear Boy George,

    Exactly a fortnight ago I sat in this identical spot in the

  garden on the path close to the edge of the lawn sunning myself

  and at the same time writing you a long letter inspired by all

  the beauties of a sunny day in a late spring, dis-cribing in

  detail all the familiar things in front of me. I think I was

  inspired by so much rapid and abundant proof of a master

  hand at work stimulating nature into a prolific growth after

  the extra long sleep through the hard winter, and was led to think

  design was in it all. To promote thankfulness and at the same

  time divert the thoughts of many, so many, who have carried

  the burden of heavy anxieties and forbodings for many weary

  months. I am again looking upon the same peaceful scene

  yet more beautiful with a second batch of lia & laburnam

  blossom stretching down to the street and a smooth shaven lawn

  in front dotted with it row of beans under the apple trees all

  of which are now beginning to shape into fruit with plums, cherry

  & pear trees following suit. There is to-day a double measure

  of thankfulness and praise to Almighty God filling my heart

  as I dwell upon all the happenings, intervening! - what

  might have been, what weighty sorrow as been averted, from which

  we have been spared! However paradoxical it may sound I

  too has mother also says in her letter posted immediately

  to France on your news reaching joy that you have come 

  
  

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• May 30, 2018 20:46:28 Thomas A. Lingner

  May 27, Sunday Afternoon 3.0 pm  The Shrubbery, Gordon Rd. Hornsey. N. 8

  
  

  My Dear Boy George,

    Exactly a fortnight ago I sat in this identical spot in the

  garden on the path close to the edge of the lawn sunning myself

  and at the same time writing you a long letter inspired by all

  the beauties of a sunny day in a late spring, dis-cribing in

  detail all the familiar things in front of me. I think I was

  inspired by so much rapid and abundant proof of a master

  hand at work stimulating nature into a prolific growth after

  the extra long sleep through the hard winter, and was led to think

  design was in it all. To promote thankfulness and at the same

  time divert the thoughts of many, so many, who have carried

  the burden of heavy anxieties and forbodings for many weary

  months. I am again looking upon the same peaceful scene

  yet more beautiful with a second batch of lia & laburnam

  blossom stretching down to the street and a smooth shaven lawn

  in front dotted with it row of beans under the apple trees all

  of which are now beginning to shape into fruit with plums, cherry

  & pear trees following suit. There is to-day a double measure

  of thankfulness and praise to Almighty God filling my heart

  as I dwell upon all the happenings, intervening! - what

  might have been, what weighty sorrow as been averted, from which

  we have been spared! However paradoxical it may sound I

  too has mother also says in her letter posted immediately

  to France on your news reaching joy that you have come

  
  

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