Darlingest lover of mine

The last letter

This is the last letter written by Edith Thompson before the killing of her husband, Percy, by her lover Freddy Bywaters. I am reproducing it (slightly cut) because it was written, in fits and starts during Edith’s working day, on the 2nd October, ie today, in 1922. A Monday. The fatal stabbing took place tomorrow, sometime around midnight, as the Thomp…