"Dear, dear, dearest Elizabeth, what are you doing to me, what are we doing to each other? How did I not see you, why was I blind, what can I do?" wrote Chris Barker to Bessie Moore in August 1944, in one of 500 letters that detail the couple's long-distance, slow-burning romance, and which are set to be published next year.
Moore and Barker worked together in the Post Office before the onset of the second world war. When Barker was stationed as a signalman in north Africa, he began writing letters to a host of friends and acquaintances, including Moore and her boyfriend Nick. Her reply let him know her relationship with Nick had ended, and also confessed her feelings for Barker, sparking a lengthy correspondence over the course of which the pair fell in love.
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