Moving Letter from Rabbi Dessler - On the Wedding Day of his Only Son - Sivan 1945 (End of WWII)

Moving Letter from Rabbi Dessler - On the Wedding Day of his Only Son - Sivan 1945 (End of WWII)
Letter handwritten and signed by R. Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler. [Gateshead, 24th Sivan / 5th June 1945].
Addressed to his cousin R. Eliyahu Eliezer Skolsky of London, on the wedding day of R. Dessler's only son - R. Nachum Ze'ev Dessler. R. Dessler describes in this letter his great excitement for the wedding, which he was unable to attend: "…I wish to inform you that the wedding of my son Nachum Ze'ev will take place today. It is difficult for me to think today, let alone write. Yet I cannot refrain from informing my relative… May G-d send His blessing which includes literally everything…".
R. Dessler was unable to travel from England to partake in the wedding of his only son in the United States. In those days, shortly after the end of WWII, R. Dessler's family was scattered across the globe, and R. Dessler was living alone in England. His wife and only daughter were exiled to faraway Australia, and his only son resided in the U.S. When his son reached marriageable age, he sought his father's counsel on the matter by correspondence. On the day of his betrothal in the U.S., R. Dessler's community held a large celebration in their rabbi's home, with discourses and sermons in honor of the joyous occasion (see Mechanech LeDorot, II, pp. 281-283. The picture of the telegraph which R. Dessler sent his son on the day of his wedding is presented there on p. 282).
R. Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler (1892-1953), leading author of Musar literature in our generation, and descendant of R. Yisrael of Salant, founder of the Musar movement. A product of the Kelm yeshiva, he was the son-in-law of R. Nachum Ze'ev Ziv of Kelm. He arrived in England in 1927 and served as rabbi of Dalston, London. Amongst the founders of the Gateshead Kollel and of Torah institutes throughout England. In his later years, he served as mashgiach of the Ponevezh yeshiva in Bnei Brak. His profound lectures constructed upon the fundamentals of ethics, Kabbalah and Chassidism were published by his disciples in the book Sichot U'Maamarim, in the five volumes of Michtav Me'Eliyahu and in Sefer Zikaron Michtav Me'Eliyahu, which have become the basis for profound study of Musar in this generation.
Official postcard (of the Kollel Rabbanim in Gateshead). 11.5X9 cm. Approx. 8 autograph lines. Light stains. Postage stamp and postmarks dated 5th June 1945.