Six page letter from George's dad to George May 13 1917

• May 31, 2018 21:22:28 Thomas A. Lingner

  May 13 1917 

  The Shrubbery

  Gordon Rd

  Hornsey N.8.

  My Dear boy George

  I've been grilling all the afternoon in the brilliant

  sunshine on the lawn for the first time this year. Fancy

  your old dad able to do this the second Sunday in May.

  Yes it's been a glorious day, and it's been a treat to sit out

  in the rocking chair and enjoy the peace & quiet of a 

  sabbath afternoon & banish for a while all thoughts of a 

  cruel & wicked war, and let fancy run free & picture 

  once again you boys in various attitudes on a bright

  summers days out on the lawn with me the Sunday usual

  siesta so often indulged in. Yes, I wish you could join

  us once again for it's really very beautiful our surroundings

  this spring on the lawn. I think the pessimist ought

  to be ashamed now after all their gloomy prophicies 

  of famine and starvation because of the late winter

  and late sowing. As I have written to Stan "Now

  God is taking a hand." (and I say it reverently) and the

  last fortnight has shown how, ceaselessly He work on through

  nature and how marvelously a bright warm sun soon levels 

  up the arrears so called and shames our lack of faith

  "seed time & harvest shall not fail". I should dearly like

  you to have a peep at the fruit trees loaded as never before

  with blossom - a trim fresh mown lawn, and Elsie & Mother 

  strolling round and bending with noses close to the ground 

  
  

• March 13, 2018 09:49:16 Jessica Adkins

  May 13 1917 

  The Shrubbery

  Gordon Rd

  Hornsey N8

  My Dear boy George

  I've been grilling all the afternoon in the brilliant

  sunshine on the lawn for the first time this year. Fancy

  your old dad able to do this the second Sunday in May.

  Yes it's been a glorious day, and it's been a treat to sit out

  in the rocking chair and enjoy the peace & quiet of a 

  sabbath afternoon  for a while all thoughts of a 

  cruel & wicked war and let fancy run free & picture 

  once again you boys in various attitudes on a bright

  summers days out on the lawn with me the Sunday usual

  siesta so often indulged in. Yes, I wish you could join

  us once again for its really very beautiful our surroundings

  this spring on the lawn. I think the pessimist might

  be ashamed now after all their gloomy prophicies 

  of famine and starvation because of the late winter

  and late sowing. As I have written to Stain "Now

  God is taking a hand. (and I say it reverently) and the

  last fortnight has shown how ceaselessly he work on through

  nature and how marvelously a bright warm sun soon levels 

  up the arrears so called and shames our lack of faith

  "seed time of harvest shall not fail". I should dearly like

  you to have a peep at the fruit trees loaded as never before

  with blossom - a trim fresh mown lawn, and Elsie & Mother 

  strolling round and bending with noses close to the ground 

  
  

  
  

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