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

A British sentimental postcard || Entitled ‘LITTLE GREY HOME IN THE WEST (4).’, this postcard is the fourth and last in a series produced, as the text on the back informs us, by ‘BAMFORTH & CO., LTD., PUBLISHERS HOLMFIRTH (ENGLAND) AND NEW YORK’, further details being ‘“SONGS” SERIES. NO. 4871/4.’ and ‘PRINTED IN ENGLAND.’. More small print on the front states, ‘Words by D. Eardley-Wilmot / Music by Hermann Lohr / By permission of Chappell & Co., Ltd., the publishers of this song. / Bamforth copyright’. The front of the postcard is divided into two scenes. Below, we see a British soldier seemingly dreaming of the scene depicted above, in which he is sitting by a dinner table, with his arms around his wife and daughter, with another daughter sitting at his feet. The verse below them reads, ‘It’s a corner of heaven itself, / Though it’s only a tumble-down nest – / But with love brooding there, why, no place can compare / With my little grey home in the west.’. || || Front || Postcard || A British sentimental 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