Todays project-lost love
I bought this photo at a tip shop in Hobart and when I opened the frame to clean it there was the envelope.As I do a lot of family research I set out to find Miss Jean Chalmers ,and perhaps the identity of the young man.I ended up contacting Jeans great nephew who told me that Jean lived into her 80s and never married.We assume the young man died in the first world war.
posted by calamitysue at 11:43 PM
4 Comments:
No letter in the envelope? How sad and evocative.
"Kindly favoured". That's the kind of thing a girl keeps forever.
You laugh, but it's true. We're pointlessly, self-deludedly sentimental that way. "I think he likes me." Really, it's pathetic.
I'm not laughing. I'm taking notes.
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