Ten Years Ago Today, item 29

• December 15, 2016 00:38:18 Sue Bryant

  Leeds University Library LEEDS L52 9JT ENGLAND

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  From the Liddle Collection (Edward Boyle Library)

   

  University Librarian and Keeper of the Brotherton Collection; R.P. CARR, BA, MA

  Keeper of the Liddle Collection: P.H. LIDDLE, BA, MLitt, PGCE, FRHist$

   

  Dear Miss Hoy,

                  Thank you kindly for the photocopy

  of a most extraordinary document. Such a thing

  I have not come across before. You quite often hear

  of people dealing with trauma in such a way

  but it is unusual to actually see any evidence of

  this kind. Your father writes clearly and well

  about his experiences during the Great War. Even

  now, as I write this letter, several hours later

  I am able to recall certain recollections of your Father’s

  experience – “Death is always lurking at one’s elbow”.

  The 2^nd LT “to my mind…was the man who

  won the War”, playing poker with the Colonel

  and then to O.P, etc, etc – This fact alone,

  proves that this document is invaluable to the

  archive. Your Father’s cold sobriety as he looks

   

  PETER LIDDLE’s1914-1918 PERSONAL EXPERIENCE ARCHIVES

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