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17 Nov 21, 08:00 PM |
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Join Date: Mar 09
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168 love letters
So mum and dad passed away many years ago but today I was given a trunk which belonged to them! It was in the loft of their home but as my brother moved into their home when they passed we didn’t clear the loft until now! Along the usual keepsakes was 168 love letters my dad wrote to my mum 😍 he was in the navy travelling the world whilst mum was home with my brother! I always knew he loved my mum so very much but Oh my word I can tell so much how he adored her and my brother by just reading a few lines! The way he speaks to them 😍 I would love to be able to read them but my dad was a very small writer and I’m going to struggle even though I have just got new glasses! From what I can tell it’s just about his travels but I would love to read them as it would be so interesting how he spent his days at sea and onshore! He has every single letter sealed with kisses right around the envelope seal it’s so sweet to see!
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17 Nov 21, 08:06 PM |
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How wonderful finding them after so many years. It must be lovely to see your dads writing and reading just how much he loved his family. I do hope you can manage to read the letters, maybe with a magnifying glass.
It’s shame people nowadays don’t write letters. Can’t see people keeping a text for 50 years ! |
17 Nov 21, 08:07 PM |
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Join Date: Jul 12
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Can you take a photo of them on your phone and zoom in?
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17 Nov 21, 08:21 PM |
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How truly wonderful is that ❤️
What a lovely lovely find for you And special memories of your parents for you to keep 💕💕 |
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17 Nov 21, 08:25 PM |
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Join Date: May 10
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How fantastic. Can you scan and save for posterity and then zoom to enlarge?
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17 Nov 21, 08:47 PM |
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Join Date: Mar 08
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Wow what a wonderful find and so special for the memories of your mum and dad.
My mum's dad died in Greece in WW11. Her mum at that time was sent some pictures of his actual funeral. Very special to even have from then. Very tiny though and couldn't make out much. I did my mum's family history a few years ago and blew the tiny pictures of her dad's burial up. It was amazing how much more of that moment was picked up increasing the image using technology available now. |
17 Nov 21, 08:58 PM |
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Join Date: Mar 10
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Oh how lovely. Isn't it great that you managed to find them as somebody could of moved in and just thrown them away. ❤
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17 Nov 21, 09:01 PM |
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That’s so lovely, such a wonderful find.
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17 Nov 21, 09:05 PM |
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Join Date: Jul 14
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OP. How lovely to have such a find. You tread a thin line on Ancestry from feeling how wonderful it is to find out such information and in your case love, to feeling you are prying in to private lives. I would cherish them and indeed read them.
To be honest I would spend weeks transcribing them and then contact a local bookbinder and have them created as a personal ‘book’ interspersed with photos. Not that expensive either.
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17 Nov 21, 09:14 PM |
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Join Date: Mar 09
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I have managed to read two! One was 6pages long the other was 10! Thanks for the tip about taking a picture and zooming in on my phone! I can seem to read most of what he’s written! Just seeing his writing is amazing! he calls mum by some nicknames which he always called me by 😍 I never knew till tonight! He’s currently in Cape Town and wrote I love you in African! They are then heading to Penang!
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