What the servant saw: Letters from the Churchill household

A pair of letters by Mary Dorgan to her son, written while she was in the employ of Winston Churchill in the mid-1940s

Progress has rendered the handwritten letter almost obsolete, which is nothing short of a tragedy. The handwritten missive tells us so much about the writer and their times.

The paper it’s written on speaks volumes, whether handmade with the engraved family crest, or a lined jotter with every centimetre of the page used up in the interest ...