An Acceptance of Marriage
The couple had met in Devizes when Bill was stationed at the Wiltshire Regiment’s barracks in the town. And in the letter, he wrote about reading her agreement to his marriage proposal.
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His words were: “I wish you could have been there when I opened it. I wept with joy. I could not help it. If you could only know how happy it made me, darling.’
It is an amazing thing that this and all the other letters to home were ultimately recovered from the deep. And the letters became the feature of an exhibition.