“My love, your letters are simply wonderful, – they’re almost touches, and that is the greatest thing you can say about a letter. I adore you.” ──Vladimir Nabokov, in a letter to his wife from Letters to Véra, 1924.
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#4 History Shorts
A pair of “forbidden” love letters during WW2 emerged between two male soldiers in 2008.
Gilbert Bradley and Gordon Bowsher fell back into love when they met each other again on the battlefield, fighting for Britain.
Being homosexual was illegal at the time. Being so could easily get you imprisoned, lobotomized, beat, and more. In the military it was viable to get you shot. However that didn’t exactly stop soldiers (almost everywhere).
They would send secret letters to each other, and gossip about their other crushes and romances.
The letters would be found after Bradley’s death, and put in the Oswestry Museum.
One letter contained the exact words, “Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all our letters could be published in the future in a more enlightened time. Then all the world could see how in love we are.”
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Letter from Constance Markievicz to Madeleine ffrench-Mullen, 12 August 1916
'much love to you & yours & my soldier girls'
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Source: Pinterest - Edith Meurrens
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Friday Five 141 by T Garceau
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