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2017-056 · Item · December 14, 1917

Consists of one handwritten letter Edward wrote to his brother George Mason (1872-1939) in Eastern Point, Lunenburg County, describing the family’s situation 8 days after the Explosion: lack of communication channels, damage to his house, injuries of family members, news of friends, and where the family is living temporarily. Several male members of the family decided to stay in a section of their damaged house, using it as a “winter camp”, in order to gain employment repairing and rebuilding the city. The photograph, found with the letter, is of 2 women, a man and a boy happily enjoying a summer day. Their identities are unconfirmed but assumed to be members of the Mason family.

Mason, Edward J.