Australian War Memorial

The Australian War Memorial is calling on the public to assist in transcribing thousands of love letters dating back almost a century. Launching on Valentine’s Day, the project will see the digital release of hundreds of thousands of personal letters, diaries and other handwritten documents. That includes the beginning of Dorothy and Mac’s 70-year love story, which was penned in hundreds of love letters spanning five years. Their romance began in 1937, when a 17-year-old Mac met a 14-year-old Dorothy, or – as he liked to call her – his darling Dot. “He kept on asking me to go out…