Monthly Archives: December 2009

Christmas 1940

With Christmas 2009 upon us, I would like to share with you, this letter which Kyffin sent home at Christmas 1940. He wrote this at a decisive and traumatic period of his life as he had just been diagnosed with … Continue reading

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Kyffin’s Photographs

Photographs from estates of deceased persons engender an initial feeling of melancholy. Hastily assembled in shoe boxes and biscuit tins is a kaleidoscope of images that reveal a life now extinguished. There are inevitably anonymous Victorian portraits, cherubic sepia babies … Continue reading

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