Ben & Hilda Christmas December 25, 1958
Married June 24, 1927
These are the last two love letters I found from Benjamin Atkinson (1884-1975) to Hilda Pinborough Atkinson (1896-1984). I do hope there are more hiding among the boxes of letters I'm archiving!
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1926 Christmas Card: Merry Christmas Sweetheart
Dearest love to you, My Sweetheart, May your Christmas be Just as bright And just as happy as you make my life for me.
I've noticed that in all the letters Ben comments on the quantity of Xs & circled Os that Hilda sends him. It's quite charming and why I'm including his signature pages above. He was clearly smitten by Hilda...
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1926 Love Letters
Lucky for me, among the hundreds of letters and postcards that Hilda received and treasured, were seven letters written between Dec 8 1926 and Jan 27 1927 from Ben to Hilda. He was in Arizona at the time for work. These are truly remarkable as there are very few items he left behind.
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