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me when i don’t yet have a stylus but i want to give makeovers in the drawing app

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#reblogging myself after years lol

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So a while back I won a cheap eBay auction listing for a collection of love letters from the first world war.

They arrived today, and…the listing was WAY more than I expected for the price I won it for. There’s over 100, and they’re not just from WWI, but from 1906 (earliest I’ve found so far) through to 1915.

Charlie writes to his girlfriend, Gertrude. This is the most beautiful, lovesick stuff I’ve ever read. He sends her so many letters, sometimes twice a day, and lots of poems. He seems to have been an artist, as he talks a lot about small exhibitions of his stuff, and included a flyer for one. He also talks about how her parents don’t approve of them and how he’s desperately awaiting the day they’ll be married.

I haven’t found the latest of the letters, but the fact it’s up until 1915 and then stops…doesn’t give me hope for a happy ending.

This man continuously refers to his precious beloved Gertie as his queen and goddess, and whilst most of it is sickly sweet, there’s some raunchy stuff too, with him talking about how he can’t wait until they have a little house together and can ‘please each other all day’…

There’s. So many.

I’m going to put them in order by date, read them through, and then maybe even transcribe them so we can find out a bit about Charlie and Gertie’s love story.

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This man was absolutely lost in the sauce

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Y'all he writes about sending her pressed poppies and postcards for her collection 😭😭😭

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111 years after Charlie got his dick touched in 1910, I decided to tell you all about it. Sorry Charlie.

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Some more finds:

And some CODE!!!

Also all this is poems:

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UHHHHH…👀👀👀

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This has a lot of notes so I need everyone to know:

They got married 😭😭😭❤ (thank you to @lovesjustachemical for finding this!!!)

omglawd

If you can part with these, I know a university archive would LOVE to have them!! They’d be so amazing for research!!

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Sorry to say I won’t be parting with them - collecting antique ephemera is a huge passion of mine and these are undoubtedly the most impressive and treasured thing in my personal collection, BUT I am scanning some and will be sending all of my transcripts + scans to a museum someone pointed me towards in the area where Charlie and Gertie lived! So they’ll still serve for research and educational purposes!

loudstevenuniverseaubooksbiscuit

Isn’t it illegal to tamper with the mail

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Please for the love of all that’s good, tell me you’re joking.

#the updates

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Okay so Victorian erotica is literally the most heinous, morally bankrupt, horrific shit I've ever read - but I've read a fair bit, partly from historical interest but also because a while back I helped a friend with a university project she was doing about censorship and pornography in 19th century England.

Anyway I need to share with you all the most hilarious line that has ever been written, circa 1887:

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The thrilling sequel:

Dni if your pussy isn't a mystic grotto.

#omfg

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So a while back I won a cheap eBay auction listing for a collection of love letters from the first world war.

They arrived today, and...the listing was WAY more than I expected for the price I won it for. There's over 100, and they're not just from WWI, but from 1906 (earliest I've found so far) through to 1915.

Charlie writes to his girlfriend, Gertrude. This is the most beautiful, lovesick stuff I've ever read. He sends her so many letters, sometimes twice a day, and lots of poems. He seems to have been an artist, as he talks a lot about small exhibitions of his stuff, and included a flyer for one. He also talks about how her parents don't approve of them and how he's desperately awaiting the day they'll be married.

I haven't found the latest of the letters, but the fact it's up until 1915 and then stops...doesn't give me hope for a happy ending.

This man continuously refers to his precious beloved Gertie as his queen and goddess, and whilst most of it is sickly sweet, there's some raunchy stuff too, with him talking about how he can't wait until they have a little house together and can 'please each other all day'...

There's. So many.

I'm going to put them in order by date, read them through, and then maybe even transcribe them so we can find out a bit about Charlie and Gertie's love story.