Please Mr. Postman

Letters!

We text, email, FB chat, blip etc, etc but I do like when there's a handwritten letter in the mail.

Who's it from?

What's inside?

Good news? (or bad)

Well this letter must've had a similar impact on it's recipient.

It was posted to a young man, serving in the RAF, stationed in Japan in 1946.

The letter writer, a young woman by the name of Monica Dickens.

You may have heard of her grandfather, a Mr Charles Dickens Esq., a bit of a writer himself!

Ms Dickens wrote a number of autobiographical books based on her various careers. She also wrote 'Follyfoot' which was adapted into a very popular television programme (1971/73)

Getting back to the letter, it was tucked behind the dust-jacket of a copy of 'My Turn To Make The Tea' published 1951.

It must've had great sentimental value, to have held on to it throughout the decades or perhaps it was simply put away in a safe place and forgotten about.

It's a small piece of literary history and tonight I share it with you, in part.