#I emailed Manchester university this weekend to see if I can buy scans of a collection

[bununuu]

I’m like Actually really talking into the void here, but I can’t get over this letter from Wilfred Owen to his mom… he finally works up the nerve to talk to Siegfried Sassoon at Craiglockhart, and they’re VIBING and Wilfred is legit in love.

They’re working on their poetry, so Wilfred obvs wants his old writing back from his childhood home. But to do that, he has to write his mom asking her to literally BREAK OPEN his desk to get his notebooks, while also pleading with her to 🚫 NOT OPEN OR READ ANYTHING 🚫

These notebooks are 100% long gone (considering the fact that he also asked his mom to destroy “sackfuls” of his papers/letters if he died during wwi) but I would love to see what they said tbh 👀