In Ruhleben, letters from a prisoner to his mother, with an account of the "university" life, classes, sports, good, accommodation, etc., of the internment camp of British prisoners . mp;BL On f^-^m. $V^, •Sinle Na. ocia kt am iMtiKiBiir rtiilaiiia tv ienoe* UNB ZWA« AUSSCMlltnLICH DUICM POTTAMVftVJMO » +or aci KOCKitirt Sis aijchnittm i»t dci »«W» NAM! l>t» CMPriNQCM ill »!50tBMOL(N MOMrV TO 1( SBNT »Y POSTAL ORDttONVY NOT Pll ItOlfTEKED LETTEK -ADDMIStfirUll NAME MUSI »t *nilTEN LlOlitY ©N COUNTERFOIL 4LII» My darling Mother, Many thanks for your dear letters. Ihope that you have received
In Ruhleben, letters from a prisoner to his mother, with an account of the "university" life, classes, sports, good, accommodation, etc., of the internment camp of British prisoners . mp;BL On f^-^m. $V^, •Sinle Na. ocia kt am iMtiKiBiir rtiilaiiia tv ienoe* UNB ZWA« AUSSCMlltnLICH DUICM POTTAMVftVJMO » +or aci KOCKitirt Sis aijchnittm i»t dci »«W» NAM! l>t» CMPriNQCM ill »!50tBMOL(N MOMrV TO 1( SBNT »Y POSTAL ORDttONVY NOT Pll ItOlfTEKED LETTEK -ADDMIStfirUll NAME MUSI »t *nilTEN LlOlitY ©N COUNTERFOIL 4LII» My darling Mother, Many thanks for your dear letters. Ihope that you have received mine of the 20thof this month by now, which the censor was kindenough to allow to pass without the usual delayof ten days. Your letters have reached meregularly, and have every time seemed like atalk with you, or, if I may put my feeling intowords more directly, to receive a letter from youis like the sight I should catch of one who is inthe same room with me, while my attention isfixed on the work before me. I know that Iam not alone, while I am working ; I am able towork because I am assured of a feeling whichurges me together with others to effort ; occa- 110. [Made at Ruhlcbcn by Stanley Griinv-The Promenade des Anglais at Ruhleben. [Facing p. in I Letters to a Mother from Ruhleben sionally I look up, and my assurance findsitself confirmed. Yes, there you are withme. This would be the greatest thing, the greatestpower, for making our loves serve their fullpossibility, this knowledge that our every actis embodying a particular trend of feeling, thatevery judgment is not a personal, purely intel-lectual weighing-up, but a joint living, loving,full expression of what fills our whole self. Thenwe should not be building up plans which haveto be realized in detail, if all that sustains us isnot to crumble down ; we should not have to waitfor the great occasion or chance for which wehave been scheming before what is servitudemay become service, but every moment of o
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