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help need reading a letter from 1941

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  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    The Reid family he wrote to lived on this street, Largo Road, Lundin Links, Leven, Fife
    https://goo.gl/maps/BiUk5HS6jd4MPMQh7

    As he wrote from Perth, and I suspect he's no longer with us, he could be buried in the Polish War Graves there.. or of course he could have gone back to Poland..
    https://goo.gl/maps/RESy2Rb1XGnKscT19
    East Anglia, England
  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    edited March 2023
    @WAMS
    John le Carré ?..

    Can anyone work out his surname? I'm seeing Milujuski but that doesn't appear to be correct..  is the 'M' something else?.. 
    East Anglia, England
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Aberfeldy
    12th MR
    41
    Perthshire



    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Google Lens apparently has the best AI handwriting reader in the world. It still can't make any sense of this guy's writing though. :D
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • war garden 572war garden 572 Posts: 664
    the post office in "Aberfeldy" is still there:
    https://location.westernunion.com/gb/perthshire/aberfeldy/ea3150106cd40f0413d9d29c2881b28a
  • HeliosHelios Posts: 232
    edited March 2023
    I think I can see his surname as something like Milujuski. I’ve checked this spelling against Polish surnames online and nothing comes up exactly the same. Anybody here have a good knowledge of Polish?
  • HeliosHelios Posts: 232
    Out of interest, has anyone else noticed how his handwriting is much more fluid and confident when he writes his own name compared to when he is writing in English? 
  • pitter-patterpitter-patter Posts: 2,429
    edited March 2023
    Let’s romanticise further. New idea, but a bit unlikely:

     I to write here one novelette in English “Spring Announcer”. 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    You are in US @war garden 572?  was the book you found the letter in originally purchased new in US or sent from Scotland? Is there a gift message or something  written in the book?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • war garden 572war garden 572 Posts: 664
    the book was from Scotland. I bought online
    it was garden book from WW2 era.  as for
    message in book I will look later. 
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