A British sentimental postcard || The printed information on the reverse of this postcard states that it was produced by ‘BAMFORTH & CO., LTD., PUBLISHERS HOLMFIRTH (ENGLAND) AND NEW YORK’; that it is the second in the ‘“SONGS” SERIES. NO. 4871/2.’; and that it was ‘PRINTED IN ENGLAND.’. The posed scene on the front shows a reclining British soldier smoking a pipe while looking into the distance. He is clearly thinking of the scene portrayed above, of his wife and daughters standing at the open door of their country cottage. The text below, headed ‘LITTLE GREY HOME IN THE WEST (2).’, reads, ‘Far ahead, where the blue shadows fall, / I shall come to contentment and rest ; / And the toils of the day will be all charmed away / In my little grey home of the west.’. The small-print text at the bottom of the postcard says ‘Words by D. Eardley-Wilmot / Music by Hermann Lohr / By permission of Chappell & Co., Ltd., the publishers of this song. / Bamforth copyright’. || || Postcard || Front || A British sentimental postcard

According to the text on the back of this postcard, it was ‘PRINTED IN ENGLAND.’ by ‘BAMFORTH & CO., LTD., PUBLISHERS HOLMFIRTH (ENGLAND) AND NEW YORK’, as part of the ‘“SONGS” SERIES. NO. 4871/3.’. The heading on the front – ‘LITTLE GREY HOME IN THE WEST (3).’ – confirms that it is the third of a series, further details being ‘Words by D. Eardley-Wilmot / Music by Hermann Lohr / By permission of Chappell & Co., Ltd., the publishers of this song. / Bamforth copyright’. On the front, a reclining soldier is pictured staring into space, apparently day-dreaming of the scene above, which shows him being welcomed home by his wife and daughters outside their home. The verse that accompanies these scenes reads, ‘There are hands that will welcome me in, / There are lips I am burning to kiss – / There are two eyes that shine just because they are mine, / And a thousand things other men miss.’. || A British sentimental postcard || || Front || A British sentimental postcard || Postcard

Cover and excerpt from 'Letters from Lamledra, Cornwall 1914-1918'; cover and excerpt from correspondence between Marjorie and John Fischer Williams (plus pdf of collected images) || My maternal grandparents, Marjorie and John Fischer Williams, married in 1911. They built a house in Cornwall and with the outbreak of war, my grandmother carried on living there with their two daughters. My grandfather was a lawyer and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and as he was too old to join up, he worked in the Home Office in London. They corresponded daily and the letters from my grandmother, describing life on the home front, were published as 'Letters from Lamledra, Cornwall 1914-1918'; she ran the house, grew food and was also an artist. Both sets of letters have been deposited in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. After the war, my grandfather spent 10 years in Paris working with the Reparations Committee. || || Marjorie Williams || This is a book of the letters written by my grandmother to my grandfather during the war, when he was working in London and she was living in their Cornish house, Lamledra (I edited the published volume). || Book || My grandmother's letters to my grandfather