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How often have you read these two little words "with love" at the bottom of a letter?
It wasn't until I started to put together our family history that I realised why I had saved these letters from long ago.
I had resisted all temptations over the years to clear out the draws and the boxes and to throw out the old letters and papers, (what use were they anyway?) but somehow, sentimentally, I just could not part with any of them, and now,
after re-reading the letters, I have decided to put them into our family history to be read and enjoyed by the present generations of our family and by those that will follow in the future.
Some of the letters are very sad, some are of happy times, undoubtedly, they all help us to understand the trials and tribulations, the happy times and the sad times, of those who have gone before us from earliest settlement to the present day families.
The hardest part of all will be to choose which letters I will include, and sadly those I will need to leave out.
Read a letter from Dora Bates in Australia to the Family in South Africa
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