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Title: Letters to Helen
Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front

Author: Keith Henderson

Illustrator: Keith Henderson

Release Date: September 2, 2005 [EBook #16626]

Language: English

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LETTERS TO HELEN

[Illustration: CRUCIFIX CORNER
Between MONTAUBAN & HIGH WOOD
One of the hands was shot away, and the figure hangs there suspended
from the other.]

LETTERS TO HELEN

Impressions of an Artist
on the Western Front

By KEITH HENDERSON

Illustrated

LONDON
CHATTO & WINDUS

MCMXVII

PREFACE

These letters were never intended for publication.

But when the pictures were brought back from France it was suggested
that they should be reproduced, and a book evolved.

Then a certain person (who shall be nameless) conceived the dastardly
idea of exposing private correspondence to the public eye. He proved
wilful in the matter, and this book came into the world.

ILLUSTRATIONS

CRUCIFIX CORNER _Frontispiece_
A CONFERENCE IN THE CHATEAU _To face page_ 6
BAILLEUL 10
LE MONT DES CATS 18
FRICOURT CEMETERY 32
TRENCHES BETWEEN FRICOURT AND LA BOISELLE 48
GIRD TRENCH 54
A HOUSE IN GEUDECOURT 60
A WOUNDED TANK 66
EXPLOSION OF AN AMMUNITION DUMP 78
THE BUTTE DE WARLENCOURT 92
PERONNE 106

LETTERS TO HELEN

_June 6, 1916._

Well, here we are in the slowest train that ever limped, and I've been
to sleep for seven hours. The first good sleep since leaving England.
And now, as we've got twenty-eig