excerpt from 'Letter from H.J. Harris to Prof. John Burnett, 20 March 1979' pp. 8 (204 words)
excerpt from 'Letter from H.J. Harris to Prof. John Burnett, 20 March 1979' pp. 8 (204 words)
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Dear Sir [Prof. John Burnett], If you would like me to fill in a few more details to my story I am willing to do so. I agree that you may consider my story too depressing as to be unbelievable, but I assure you that it is absolutely true in every detail [.] […] I would like to tell you of some of the reliefs, which though trivial judged by today’s standards, were greatly appreciated by us inmates. […] Another fond memory I store is the Christmas celebrations [at the orphanage]. Our school was very bleak and spartan. There was no decoration and no covering on the floors which were kept clean by [the orphans’] hard scrubbing regularly, that the Xmas decorations made it look quite comforting and pleasant. I told you that there were 5 houses, and that usually one did not go out of one’s own house to visit another. At Christmas we would go to first one house to view their decorations, one one day and another house on another day, until each house had visited the five houses of the community. We would sing carols (that we had specially learned, for this occasion). Each had a different set of carols to sing. |
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