Letter from John to James Shaw, 2 January 1916 Letters 1916-1923 John

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 Public Record Office of Northern Ireland Shaw Papers, D1962-2 https://letters1916.ie/item/4179 English John 1916-01-02 James Shaw Male World War I (1914-1918) World War I (1914-1918) Country and City Life

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 2nd Jan 1915 Dear James, Many thanks for your very nice card received to day I hope all your people are well. I had one letter from my ma & Liam Mike since he left you. They are all getting along fine. I thought they would have got a few days leave at Exmas I am getting along fine here and we all had a good time at Exmas. I am shure it is very dull about Portstewart now with all the boys away. I see Stuart Henry has gone to . There is some talk about us getting leave but I don't know whether it will come up or not. If I do get home I will miss my old chum. I wish we could both manage to be home at the same but it is a terrible watch now for the names. They would neither surrender nor retire. The world might call it foolhardy glorious! but it i;s such conduct that purifies the poor world, and raises it to a higher level and lives in History for generations to come. Please convey our heart felt congratulations to your husband and accept them yourself also from us. Don't these verses fit them? And now we feel that all around Have angels walked the well known ground Not winged & strange beyond your ken But in the form of common men God's messengers from Heaven's own sphere Unrecognised — because so near. Believe me sincerely yours Gertrude Cd Clements John Letter from John to James Shaw, 2 January 1916