Letter from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine
Title
Letter from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine
Description
Writes it was lovely to hear his voice and that his first operational trip was over safely. Continues that the next few months will be worst for him and she was thinking of him in church on Easter Sunday. Writes of possible future and one being left to struggle on. Hopes that they will have next 40-50 years together and wishes him good luck.
Creator
Date
1942-04-06
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Format
Two page handwritten letter
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Identifier
EValentineUMValentineJRM420406-02
Transcription
No 6 Lido Monday 6.4.42
My dearest Johnny, It was lovely to hear your voice this evening, sounding so cheerful & so confident, & to know that the ice is broken, the plunge taken & your first ops trip safely over. May all the others be as trouble-free! The next few months are likely to be the worst for both of us – but of course not so bad for me as for you (unless London gets gas or invasion or both!) but the thought came to me persistently in church yesterday, Easter Sunday, that because of that first Easter we have now, you & I, the sure promise of eternal life together if only we fight a[deleted] fight [/deleted] good fight & cling to our faith. For me that makes things so much
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simpler, by taking the sting of fear out. The worst that can happen is that one of us dies & leaves the other to struggle on alone. Admittedly it would be dreary, but even 40 or 50 years here is not much compared to eternity, & it is a glorious thought to me that we are [underlined] bound [/underlined] to win through to each other in the end if we “do our duty to God & the King” Let's hope that we have the next 40 or 50 years here together, & then eternity on top of that.
So I wish you good luck, my darling, & send you all my love, now and always, yours Ursula
My dearest Johnny, It was lovely to hear your voice this evening, sounding so cheerful & so confident, & to know that the ice is broken, the plunge taken & your first ops trip safely over. May all the others be as trouble-free! The next few months are likely to be the worst for both of us – but of course not so bad for me as for you (unless London gets gas or invasion or both!) but the thought came to me persistently in church yesterday, Easter Sunday, that because of that first Easter we have now, you & I, the sure promise of eternal life together if only we fight a[deleted] fight [/deleted] good fight & cling to our faith. For me that makes things so much
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simpler, by taking the sting of fear out. The worst that can happen is that one of us dies & leaves the other to struggle on alone. Admittedly it would be dreary, but even 40 or 50 years here is not much compared to eternity, & it is a glorious thought to me that we are [underlined] bound [/underlined] to win through to each other in the end if we “do our duty to God & the King” Let's hope that we have the next 40 or 50 years here together, & then eternity on top of that.
So I wish you good luck, my darling, & send you all my love, now and always, yours Ursula
Collection
Citation
Ursula Valentine, “Letter from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed July 4, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/19863.
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