Letter to Glenn Brooks from 'Mother and All'
Title
Letter to Glenn Brooks from 'Mother and All'
Description
The letter contains farming, family and friends news. She mentions his father has been poorly and has been on a special diet.
Creator
Date
1944-09-28
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Language
Format
One double sided handwritten sheet
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Contributor
Identifier
EBrooksDBrooksGW440928-0001, EBrooksDBrooksGW440928-0002
Transcription
28 Sep 1944: Dear Glenn
Well this letter is 4 days behind and I hope it finds you safe and well. We got your letters1 and was glad that everything was well with you. We finished threshing at noon today. Tom Westlake threshed us and we had Wingletson Wight, Milton Wight, Bragg’s boys and Heyland’s man here to help. Our grain didn’t turn out extra well but we have all the bins in granary full. Dad’s exray [sic] showed a bad ulcer in his stomach and he is on a diet and goes back in two weeks. He is feeling some better. He has a very light diet and can’t have tobacco or tea so he is lost without the tobacco but I think it was doing him harm. All he can have is soup, milk, cream of wheat porridge, egg and soda biscuits in limited quantities. We expect to pick our canning corn tomorrow. They haven’t called it in and it’s getting too far on so we had to call them about it. Our apples have to be started next week and hardly know how we will get them picked as help is so scarce. Dora is coming up Saturday night so maybe she will boost us on Sunday. Our weather has been nasty and tonight it is cold and windy. Grant went out on the tractor in the south orchard tonight but soon came in with cold feet. He is now eating toasted raisin bread which is his favorite snack lately and Gwendolyn is practicing her singing. Dad has gone to bed and I expect he is blessing her and her singing. We heard today that Gordon Wilbur was wounded so guess that will upset Lizzie. Stewart Hogarth died from his wounds. Derek is in a British hospital and is doing fine. He got his top teeth knocked out. George Werry and Howard Wight are both in France and Aunt Myrtle asked me tonight if you had said any more about why you didn’t see George in London. Well the fairs are pretty well over. Dad wasn’t feeling so good so we didn’t go to any. Joe Snowden is picking apples at Claire Allins. You know Foster planted 3000 tomato plants and they were all ruined with that hailstorm. We called down to Martin’s last Sun. night and they said Arch was on some secret mission and I wondered if Bob Scott was with him. Grant says to tell you that we have 30 bbls of Macs off the grafts, pretty fair samples and I will put a few in your parcel so you may sample them. Guess you don’t get many apples. Jesse thinks we should try to get you home, at least when Germany is beaten, on account of Dad’s health and the farm and if you wanted it that way we could try. Roy Morton’s brother is getting home to help his Dad on the farm and he is in the R.C.A.F. in England. It is now morning and Dad is leaving and Grant is waiting for me to go to the corn, some job but guess we will manage. It is a swell day. Often wonder if you look the same as when you left. Do you get along alright with your washing and mending? I do a lot of thinking mostly about you and wishing you were home again. Well, I must close for now. Keep well and look out for yourself.
Love from Mother and All.
It is a lovely fall morning and I am about to go out and start picking canning corn. We are rather baffled to know just how to go about it. Dad has an appointment with the doctor dentist this morning and Gwen is coming home from school at noon. I hope you are feeling well and not working to hard. Of course any time you get sick of it over there well come on home and I’ll put you to work. Mother has probably told you about our threshing. The straw was really dirty.
Doug Wight has bought another new Ellis-Chalmers tractor only it a bigger size like Claire Allin’s. Well be sure and write us. I intend to write in a few days. I guess I should have a bigger tractor because I’ve got about 65 acres to turn under this fall.
Well goodbye for now, Grant
Well this letter is 4 days behind and I hope it finds you safe and well. We got your letters1 and was glad that everything was well with you. We finished threshing at noon today. Tom Westlake threshed us and we had Wingletson Wight, Milton Wight, Bragg’s boys and Heyland’s man here to help. Our grain didn’t turn out extra well but we have all the bins in granary full. Dad’s exray [sic] showed a bad ulcer in his stomach and he is on a diet and goes back in two weeks. He is feeling some better. He has a very light diet and can’t have tobacco or tea so he is lost without the tobacco but I think it was doing him harm. All he can have is soup, milk, cream of wheat porridge, egg and soda biscuits in limited quantities. We expect to pick our canning corn tomorrow. They haven’t called it in and it’s getting too far on so we had to call them about it. Our apples have to be started next week and hardly know how we will get them picked as help is so scarce. Dora is coming up Saturday night so maybe she will boost us on Sunday. Our weather has been nasty and tonight it is cold and windy. Grant went out on the tractor in the south orchard tonight but soon came in with cold feet. He is now eating toasted raisin bread which is his favorite snack lately and Gwendolyn is practicing her singing. Dad has gone to bed and I expect he is blessing her and her singing. We heard today that Gordon Wilbur was wounded so guess that will upset Lizzie. Stewart Hogarth died from his wounds. Derek is in a British hospital and is doing fine. He got his top teeth knocked out. George Werry and Howard Wight are both in France and Aunt Myrtle asked me tonight if you had said any more about why you didn’t see George in London. Well the fairs are pretty well over. Dad wasn’t feeling so good so we didn’t go to any. Joe Snowden is picking apples at Claire Allins. You know Foster planted 3000 tomato plants and they were all ruined with that hailstorm. We called down to Martin’s last Sun. night and they said Arch was on some secret mission and I wondered if Bob Scott was with him. Grant says to tell you that we have 30 bbls of Macs off the grafts, pretty fair samples and I will put a few in your parcel so you may sample them. Guess you don’t get many apples. Jesse thinks we should try to get you home, at least when Germany is beaten, on account of Dad’s health and the farm and if you wanted it that way we could try. Roy Morton’s brother is getting home to help his Dad on the farm and he is in the R.C.A.F. in England. It is now morning and Dad is leaving and Grant is waiting for me to go to the corn, some job but guess we will manage. It is a swell day. Often wonder if you look the same as when you left. Do you get along alright with your washing and mending? I do a lot of thinking mostly about you and wishing you were home again. Well, I must close for now. Keep well and look out for yourself.
Love from Mother and All.
It is a lovely fall morning and I am about to go out and start picking canning corn. We are rather baffled to know just how to go about it. Dad has an appointment with the doctor dentist this morning and Gwen is coming home from school at noon. I hope you are feeling well and not working to hard. Of course any time you get sick of it over there well come on home and I’ll put you to work. Mother has probably told you about our threshing. The straw was really dirty.
Doug Wight has bought another new Ellis-Chalmers tractor only it a bigger size like Claire Allin’s. Well be sure and write us. I intend to write in a few days. I guess I should have a bigger tractor because I’ve got about 65 acres to turn under this fall.
Well goodbye for now, Grant
Collection
Citation
Glenn Brook's Mother, “Letter to Glenn Brooks from 'Mother and All',” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed November 15, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/30961.