A sample dispatch — Word from The Almshouse

A sample dispatch

What follows is a facsimile of the dispatch as it arrives in the post — printed on cream paper, signed by hand, and posted with a real stamp. If you subscribe, this is what you will receive each month.

Page 1 of the Pentecost dispatch, showing the almshouse drawing at the top, the masthead, and the opening paragraphs about the rhododendrons in flower and the Community of St Cuthbert.

Page 2 of the Pentecost dispatch, continuing with the gardener's view of ponticum, the Chaplain's short Pentecost sermon, and the disciples in the upper room.

Page 3 of the Pentecost dispatch, concluding with the cook's Whitsun cake, the woman two doors down, and Leonard's handwritten signature and postscript.

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