Letter to Connie and Bill from Stanley Shaw
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Letter to Connie and Bill from Stanley Shaw
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Catches up with news and sorry he could not meet Bill and speculates over future opportunities. Expresses sympathy to Connie that Bill is posted abroad.
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Two page handwritten letter
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A/C 2 1576412.
HUT 209.
57. O.T.U.
S.H.Q.
Hawarden
Nr Chester
N. Wales
Monday
Dear Connie & Bill
I have just heard you were at home Bill on what on other occasions would have been called a week of pleasure. I am sorry you are having to go abroad, its not a pleasant thought but still nothing can be done about it unfortunately. I am sorry I could not have seen you at Chester before if only we had thought about some time back we could have enjoyed ourselves a bit together still if you happen to go back to R- & have half a [deleted] chance [/deleted] chance to get down let me know soon enough & I’ll be there, because if its possible I must see you before you go or it will
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be god above knows when I shall see you again. Well Connie I can understand a little how you both feel & I am very sorry for you both & I hope you are not kept apart for long. I am still clinging to the hope it will be over before next Winter if not before so that we can go back to normal times again & blast war & all it stands for it would be grand to write this letter asking you to come over to Stapleford for the weekend, & down to the Warren has [sic] before the world turned upside down, & I hope I shant be long before I am doing so. Well all the best & enjoy yourselves has [sic] much as you can this week & Good luck & if I don’t see you Bill Best of Luck & chin up look after yourself.
Yours with Love
Stan
HUT 209.
57. O.T.U.
S.H.Q.
Hawarden
Nr Chester
N. Wales
Monday
Dear Connie & Bill
I have just heard you were at home Bill on what on other occasions would have been called a week of pleasure. I am sorry you are having to go abroad, its not a pleasant thought but still nothing can be done about it unfortunately. I am sorry I could not have seen you at Chester before if only we had thought about some time back we could have enjoyed ourselves a bit together still if you happen to go back to R- & have half a [deleted] chance [/deleted] chance to get down let me know soon enough & I’ll be there, because if its possible I must see you before you go or it will
[page break]
be god above knows when I shall see you again. Well Connie I can understand a little how you both feel & I am very sorry for you both & I hope you are not kept apart for long. I am still clinging to the hope it will be over before next Winter if not before so that we can go back to normal times again & blast war & all it stands for it would be grand to write this letter asking you to come over to Stapleford for the weekend, & down to the Warren has [sic] before the world turned upside down, & I hope I shant be long before I am doing so. Well all the best & enjoy yourselves has [sic] much as you can this week & Good luck & if I don’t see you Bill Best of Luck & chin up look after yourself.
Yours with Love
Stan
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S Shaw, “Letter to Connie and Bill from Stanley Shaw,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed February 19, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/37518.
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