| Description | Includes extremely faded photo of a young boy and girl labelled "Froggy and? Miriam" in Florence Chaplin Shepard's handwriting on the back [Graham Shepard and? Mary Shepard].
Letter postmarked 16 July 1916 and addressed to E H Shepard at 105 Siege Battery, R.G.A. British Expeditionary Force, France.
Paper headed with "Sunday 16th July" [Handwritten].
Florence writes that she has received E H Shepard's letters in an odd order. Florence writes that she hopes that E H Shepard has not written to Pip Gossage concerning the portrait; she notes that "they've been kind".
Florence details the circumstances of Cyril's death; she writes that he was killed "straight away…as he was leading the charge". Florence notes the approximate location of Cyril's burial place, so that E H Shepard might seek it out.
Florence signs of with the nickname "Mont".
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