After my grandmother had had official notification of my grandfather's death in the First World War she received this 3 page letter from his commanding officer. It reads as follows: On behalf of ...

Rupert Brooke's death at the start of World War One was widely mourned Two letters written by the poet Rupert Brooke just before World War One have sold at auction for £9,058. The letters ...

And I thought to myself, "Well, if this is death, it's not so bad." KATIE MORTER: I heard the postman come. And I knew that it would be a letter for me. So I ran down in my nightdress and opened ...