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Ann Judge has asked me to record more extracts from my great-uncle Antony\u2019s letters for the excellent Herts Memories website \u2013 www.hertsmemories.org.uk<\/a>.\u00a0 It is a little strange for me to be exclaiming aloud for the microphone how much I enjoy boarding school and boxing \u2013 neither of which has ever held much appeal for me! \u2013 But I have enjoyed the challenge finding of Antony\u2019s voice in his extraordinarily touching and expressive letters to his parents.\u00a0 His love of home, family and of Knebworth has been easier to me to capture \u2013 and I imagine his voice, if not his Edwardian accent, was not so very different from mine.<\/p>\n

Antony was my grandmother Hermione\u2019s elder brother, one of the \u201clost boys\u201d generation immortalised in J.M. Barrie\u2019s \u2018Peter Pan\u2019.\u00a0 He, like his best friend Nico Llewelyn Davies\u2019s elder brothers, was lost to us at an early age, although not in the First World War for which he was too young, but in a flying accident whilst flying in formation at a Hendon air show.\u00a0 He had already led a remarkable life, a ski champion in the early days of Alpine sports and M.P. for Hitchin by the age of 28.\u00a0 J.M. Barrie wrote of him:\u00a0 \u201cFew on the whole have had such a happy life, and it could not have been as happy without his jolly miseries, which were as entrancing as all the rest of him. \u00a0Perhaps his laugh was his richest part. \u00a0However grim the mood, it was sure to be caught out by his laugh. \u00a0I have never heard a more glorious laugh in man or boy; it overfilled him: I think he laughed last in his last moment, or one prefers to believe his laugh accompanies him still.” [Antony: A Record of Youth (1935)]<\/p>\n

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