Stan and Grace

Grimethorpe 17.7.44                                                                                          (151) My Own Darling, Monday morning usually brings a letter from you but the postman decided to pass me by this morning.   However, there will probably be a letter from you tomorrow. Not much has happened here since I last wrote you.   Not that one expects much to happen in Grimethorpe! Yesterday I spent most of my time sewing.   I was making pillowcases.   “Not exciting” you will probably say but I got quite a thrill...

234226 Sergt. S. Bristow Headquarters 15 L of C Signals Cen Med Forces 16 Jul 44                                                                                        176. My Very Own Darling, Sunday again!   This day has come to mean two things to me, firstly the end of one week and the start of another which will bring you and I nearer together; and secondly mail day. The A.P.O. didn’t disappoint me today, neither, Darling, for besides your letter of 11 Jul there was an absolutely grand sea letter written a month earlier.   It ensured t...

Grimethorpe                                                              (150) 15.7.44 My Precious Darling, A letter arrived from you yesterday.   As it was quite late when I arrived from 19’ last night I decided to postpone my reply until to-day.   You had written it on July 7 th so it had only taken a week to come. Darling, I do look forward to your letters so very much.   I still miss you terribly and how I am longing for your return.   I guess you long to be home as much as I am looking forward to you coming.   When I sit at this kitchen table with the old clock ticking away and everything else very quiet (it is now 11.15 p/m) my mind goes back eighteen m...

234226 Sergt. S. Bristow Headquarters 15 L of C Signals Cen Med Forces  14 Jul 44                                                                                                                           174.                                                  My Very Own Precious Darling, I haven’t much fresh to write about, but as I have these snaps to send you, I thought I would spend half an hour writing to you.   I always feel happy, Darling when I am putting my thoughts on paper for you. ...

2364226 Sergt. S. Bristow Headquarters 15 L of C Signals Cen Med Forces 13 July 44                                                                            173. My Own Precious Darling, The 13 th of the month has been far from an unlucky day as far as I am concerned, for to-day the postman presented me with two letters from you!   Fancy two in one day!   Its ages since that happened.   So as you can guess, I am right on top of the world today. Your description of your meanderings round the fair city of Edinburgh brought back some pleasant memories of my visit there in May ’39. I was quite...

Edinburgh 11-7-44                                                                                (148) My Own Darling, Have not received any more letters from you since I last wrote you, though I suppose my mail will be waiting for me at home. I wrote you a sea-letter and posted it on the 9 th though I suppose you will not receive it for a couple of months. Yesterday was not a very nice day.   It was cold and wet so we ended up at the pictures.   We saw Walt Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”.   I had not seen it before and thoroughly enjoyed it. Nan says that I must f...