Letter To Susan Owen (1)
Page description
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Letter To Susan Owen (1)
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| Author |
Owen, Wilfred (1893-1918)
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| Notes |
Discusses censoring letters and the area of the line his Regiment will shortly occupy. Describes his servant, and his Company Commanders. Describes inspecting soldiers' feet for trench-foot, the Victoria Cross, and his own appearance in waders. He concludes by listing some items he would like his mother to send him. This letter includes a code to tell his mother his location (hence the closing comment 'You need not ask where I am. I have told you as far as I can'. The trigger is the word 'mistletoe'. The reader must then record the second letter of the first words on the following lines. This is letter no. 479 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
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| Item date |
10th January 1917
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| Creation place |
2nd Manchester Regiment, Serre, France
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| Item source | |
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| Writing medium | |
| Content | |
| Page number |
1
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| Total number of pages |
6
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| Cataloguer |
Jennifer Dunn
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| Filename |
WOHRLET479-1.jpg
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| Copyright |
The Harry Ransom Center / The Wilfred Owen Literary Estate
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| Digital repository | |
| Collection ID |
Wilfred Owen Letters f.479-1
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| Repository name |
Harry Ransom Center
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| Repository address line1 |
The University of Texas at Austin
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| Repository address line2 |
21st and Guadalupe Streets
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| Repository address line3 |
Austin
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| Repository address county or state |
Texas
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| Repository address Zip code |
78712
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| Repository address country |
USA
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| Repository address URL |
Collection
Citation
“Letter To Susan Owen,” First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed May 18, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/items/show/8194.
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Document description
| Title |
Letter To Susan Owen
|
|---|---|
| Author |
Owen, Wilfred (1893-1918)
|
| Notes |
Discusses censoring letters and the area of the line his Regiment will shortly occupy. Describes his servant, and his Company Commanders. Describes inspecting soldiers' feet for trench-foot, the Victoria Cross, and his own appearance in waders. He concludes by listing some items he would like his mother to send him. This letter includes a code to tell his mother his location (hence the closing comment 'You need not ask where I am. I have told you as far as I can'. The trigger is the word 'mistletoe'. The reader must then record the second letter of the first words on the following lines. This is letter no. 479 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
|
| Item date |
10th January 1917
|
| Creation place |
2nd Manchester Regiment, Serre, France
|
| Item source | |
| Item medium | |
| Writing medium | |
| Content | |
| Total number of pages |
6
|
| Cataloguer |
Jennifer Dunn
|
| Copyright |
The Harry Ransom Center / The Wilfred Owen Literary Estate
|
| Digital repository | |
| Repository name |
Harry Ransom Center
|
| Repository address line1 |
The University of Texas at Austin
|
| Repository address line2 |
21st and Guadalupe Streets
|
| Repository address line3 |
Austin
|
| Repository address county or state |
Texas
|
| Repository address Zip code |
78712
|
| Repository address country |
USA
|
| Repository address URL |
Citation
“Letter To Susan Owen,” First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed May 18, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/items/show/8194.