Read the full article “Postcards from France: Paul Fussell and the Field Service ‘Form-letter.’”
A standard British Army Field Service Postcard sent from Wilfred Owen to his mother, Susan Owen, on April 5, 1917.
A letter from Edmund Blunden to Siegfried Sassoon, March 30, 1929.
Read the full article on The Daily Beast website, “Last Letters From World War I Literary Heroes.”
English poet Wilfred Owen’s last letter to his mother. Dated Oct. 31, 1918, Owen was killed on November 4, one week before the Armistice.
The Ransom Center holds a Wilfred Owen Collection of World War I Poetry, which includes some family correspondence as well.
