Six page letter from George's dad to George May 13 1917
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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
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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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"The Shrubbery"
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- 17094 / 198767
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- Pamela Brush
May 13, 1917
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