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These letters circulate among Gunnishmen who have made the "old choice" to leave Gunnland in order to work, study, or fight abroad in the freer and more prosperous nations of Europe. Since Gunnland has very few radio and television networks, and the Windhaven Free Press does not circulate beyond the capital city region, these letters are widely copied by the diaspora and take the place of news. They are written mostly under the direction of Walter Matthew, an editor at the Free Press and an English tutor at Marian University, Windhaven.
NOTE: Those unfamiliar with Windhaven may consult this map:
No. 121
Corpus Christi, 1957
Corpus Christi, 1957
Dear Gunnishman,
Sheep-shearing time in dear old dirty Windhaven. The drovers came over the Stone Bridge yesterday, and Old St. Fergus stunk of wet wool at Mass this evening. Of course this also means a public holiday Thursday for the Highland Games. Harry K HEHIR, a 23-year-old Keith man from the north country won at the Lazy Stick. I'm sorry to say for all you Buchanan men out there that Harry became the first man to lift up Rory "Red Hands" B MacINTOSH in four years.
The succession crisis draws into its second summer up in St. Tears. Since both rulers-elect are Gunns, the Lord Commander is barred from voting and breaking the tie. Three thegns for the toddler Prince JOACHAS, whom the LC favors, and three thegns for the DOWAGER QUEEN. The priests have the boy locked up, and the doctors have the old lady locked up, while the Thing argues about how the boy will be educated and the Liberals mostly just complain about when they can return to the city. Truth be told, it warms my heart that all the professors here who have to serve as MTs are meeting outside in the frozen north, while my students study quietly in the Freehold library.
A student accused of communist party membership, put in the stocks by the uptown constable last week, was put in detention by the Army. Conor X MacKEOWN is a 19-year-old who allegedly joined a left-wing international political party while studying abroad at university in Eiffelland. Since he is a broken man, he has not been returned to a clan for keepsafe. This has become something of a legal crisis, since while the Left Liberals have argued that there is no law prohibiting communist party membership, the official position of the Integralist minority government of James G GALLAGHER is that communist party membership is against the laws of the Church. The Thing is likely to try the case, which in my opinion is ridiculous, this autumn when they return to Windhaven as the court of assizes. There can't be twelve communists in Gunnland, after all.
1st division baseball: WINDHAVEN SHELVING 38-26, ST TEARS 37-29, SUTHERLAND-SEAGUARD 35-34, DALMYRE 34-33, FAR NORTH 32-33.
None were killed in the great storm that struck Sutherland Seaguard, for those of you who wrote with worries.
With the Games over and the university finished for the semester, it's so quiet uptown that you can hear the Wash flow under Stone Bridge. I raise a glass of Glenwillie. Health to the King, whomever he may be now, and also to you.
Sheep-shearing time in dear old dirty Windhaven. The drovers came over the Stone Bridge yesterday, and Old St. Fergus stunk of wet wool at Mass this evening. Of course this also means a public holiday Thursday for the Highland Games. Harry K HEHIR, a 23-year-old Keith man from the north country won at the Lazy Stick. I'm sorry to say for all you Buchanan men out there that Harry became the first man to lift up Rory "Red Hands" B MacINTOSH in four years.
The succession crisis draws into its second summer up in St. Tears. Since both rulers-elect are Gunns, the Lord Commander is barred from voting and breaking the tie. Three thegns for the toddler Prince JOACHAS, whom the LC favors, and three thegns for the DOWAGER QUEEN. The priests have the boy locked up, and the doctors have the old lady locked up, while the Thing argues about how the boy will be educated and the Liberals mostly just complain about when they can return to the city. Truth be told, it warms my heart that all the professors here who have to serve as MTs are meeting outside in the frozen north, while my students study quietly in the Freehold library.
A student accused of communist party membership, put in the stocks by the uptown constable last week, was put in detention by the Army. Conor X MacKEOWN is a 19-year-old who allegedly joined a left-wing international political party while studying abroad at university in Eiffelland. Since he is a broken man, he has not been returned to a clan for keepsafe. This has become something of a legal crisis, since while the Left Liberals have argued that there is no law prohibiting communist party membership, the official position of the Integralist minority government of James G GALLAGHER is that communist party membership is against the laws of the Church. The Thing is likely to try the case, which in my opinion is ridiculous, this autumn when they return to Windhaven as the court of assizes. There can't be twelve communists in Gunnland, after all.
1st division baseball: WINDHAVEN SHELVING 38-26, ST TEARS 37-29, SUTHERLAND-SEAGUARD 35-34, DALMYRE 34-33, FAR NORTH 32-33.
None were killed in the great storm that struck Sutherland Seaguard, for those of you who wrote with worries.
With the Games over and the university finished for the semester, it's so quiet uptown that you can hear the Wash flow under Stone Bridge. I raise a glass of Glenwillie. Health to the King, whomever he may be now, and also to you.
Your servant,
Dr. Walter A Matthew
Marian University
Windhaven, Gunnland
Dr. Walter A Matthew
Marian University
Windhaven, Gunnland
NOTE: Those unfamiliar with Windhaven may consult this map:
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. In the following letter, Dr. Matthew will be looking through the fog from the Capitollium [2], downhill towards the Freehold [1] and over the river to the high spires of Old St. Fergus Church [7]. Stone Bridge is the middle of the three bridges over the river that bisects Windhaven, the Wash.
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