AUSTRALIAN WEDS PEN-FRIEND

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 64, 18 December 1946, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN WEDS PEN-FRIEND

BLIND GIRL’S ROMANCE PHOTOGRAPH DESCRIBED BY MOTHER Four years ago a blind girl, Violet Stygall, then aged 18, listened to her mother describing a photograph enclosed in a letter from Australia: Now she has married the man of the photograph in a Hounslow, Middlesex, Church. Violet was still at school when she wrote to an Australian journaist, Eric Baume, and asked hiip to insert her request for a pen-friend in an Australian paper. From the many replies she selected that of George Revell, and regularly they exchanged letters—Violet in her flawless typewriting. Two years went by, and then one day a small package arrived. The ring fitted Violet perfectly. . It was another two years before George was demobbed and able to come to England. Violet went to the London docks last April to meet him. Violet’s mother, in’ their home in Hounslow, told how her only daughter lost her sight when she was 11 months old, following an illness. “As the years went by we found that she was happiest when she was'

listening to music, singing, or playing the piano. She types perfectly, and sometimes does letters for her father.” . Violet hopes to leave for Australia where she intends to share the work of her husband’s sheep farm.