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eBook Edition © November 2018

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CONTENTS

In memory of the dead of the Great War, among them

John Anstruther (1888-1914), Reggie Wyndham (1876-1914)

and Ian Chrystal (1888-1917).

“The correspondence column of The Times may be regarded as the Forum of our modern world,” wrote the evangelist Frederick Meyer to the newspaper in 1915, “in which the individual may deliver his soul. ”

The paper has published letters since its establishment in 1785, but in the nineteenth century these had often been lengthy political tracts rather than brief observations on current events. As Meyer noted, however, by the time what became known as the Great War began, the Letters Page had started to assume a form we would recognise today.