Story and photos by Michele Leggott and Catherine Field-Dodgson The envelope is small, opening on its right side, with an inscription in black ink that reads: ‘Godfrey Briant from Aunt Grace.’ It was rediscovered a few months ago among family files at the home of Goff and Judith Briant in Marton. Hugh Godfrey Briant, known Read More…
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Dot Moore writes from New Zealand, 1910
Sometimes the voice comes from a long way off but it can still make powerful connections. In one of Sue Needham’s folders is a retyping of her cousin Graeme Griffin’s typed transcript of a letter written by Dorothy Moore (1896-1979) to her sister Constance around 1910. Dot, aged about 13, is writing home to Lismore, Read More…
Open Call for Emily’s Letters
Who did Emily Harris write to during her long life and where are those letters now? Her descendants have done an admirable job of preserving family papers and artifacts, and so it is that we have access to a history of Emily and her family in their own words through the 1840s and early 1850s. Read More…