Letter to Les Pickford's Mother from Mrs EW Pepper
Title
Letter to Les Pickford's Mother from Mrs EW Pepper
Description
She thanks Les' mother for a newspaper cutting about their sons. She has been ill. She sends her thanks to Les for his letter.
Creator
Date
1942-06-10
Temporal Coverage
Language
Format
Two double sided handwritten sheets
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Contributor
Identifier
EPepperEWPickfordA420610-0001, EPepperEWPickfordA420610-0002, EPepperEWPickfordA420610-0003, EPepperEWPickfordA420610-0004
Transcription
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Highfield
115 Cross Oak Road
Berkhamsted
Herts
10th June 1942
My dear Mrs Pickford
How very kind and thoughtful of you to have sent the cutting from the paper about our dear sons. Thank you very much for it, & your nice letter. It’s a very sad time for us all & brings back sad memories. It [underlined] was [/underlined] kind of Mrs Hyde to remember my darling boy too. I must write & thank her. I did mean to put the announcement in the Times but was too ill to attend to things myself, & my son & daughter are both away. & so I just kept the dear memory of my darling son
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on 3rd & 5th which was his birthday all to myself. I have been ill nearly all the time since Jan. sometimes worse and sometimes a little better. However, I hope now that the weather has improved that I will get better. Still I just cant help missing my dear son & fretting about him. Though I know there are hundreds of other mothers who have suffered the same as I have. We must really be brave & are very proud of our dear boys. Will you please thank your dear son for his nice letter to me. It was good of him to write & give me all the particulars which I wanted. It is a comfort to [deleted word] know my boy was not made to suffer any pain – I am so sorry to hear that our boys dont get sufficient food. I do wish we could send them some or have some sent from countries where
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they have more. However I hope the Red Cross parcels are arriving more often now & that the [deleted letters] poor dears will get more food. Your boy mentioned something about some snap he had sent you of my son & his crew & would like me to have them. Will you tell him that I shall be most grateful for them & thank him for the kind thought, also for the very nice things he said about his Pilot. I feel sure my boy was loved by all who knew him.
I hope you are all keeping well, & that you will soon have your dear son with you again. I wont write to him as I feel it means depriving him of a [deleted word] [inserted] a letter [/inserted] from you, & these the reply keeps you waiting for a letter for him, & I know how very precious his letters must be to you – I have left Lewes & am now
[page break]
at the address I have given on this letter.
With best wishes & again many thanks for your kind thought of me.
Yours very sincerely
Ethel W. Pepper
Highfield
115 Cross Oak Road
Berkhamsted
Herts
10th June 1942
My dear Mrs Pickford
How very kind and thoughtful of you to have sent the cutting from the paper about our dear sons. Thank you very much for it, & your nice letter. It’s a very sad time for us all & brings back sad memories. It [underlined] was [/underlined] kind of Mrs Hyde to remember my darling boy too. I must write & thank her. I did mean to put the announcement in the Times but was too ill to attend to things myself, & my son & daughter are both away. & so I just kept the dear memory of my darling son
[page break]
on 3rd & 5th which was his birthday all to myself. I have been ill nearly all the time since Jan. sometimes worse and sometimes a little better. However, I hope now that the weather has improved that I will get better. Still I just cant help missing my dear son & fretting about him. Though I know there are hundreds of other mothers who have suffered the same as I have. We must really be brave & are very proud of our dear boys. Will you please thank your dear son for his nice letter to me. It was good of him to write & give me all the particulars which I wanted. It is a comfort to [deleted word] know my boy was not made to suffer any pain – I am so sorry to hear that our boys dont get sufficient food. I do wish we could send them some or have some sent from countries where
[page break]
they have more. However I hope the Red Cross parcels are arriving more often now & that the [deleted letters] poor dears will get more food. Your boy mentioned something about some snap he had sent you of my son & his crew & would like me to have them. Will you tell him that I shall be most grateful for them & thank him for the kind thought, also for the very nice things he said about his Pilot. I feel sure my boy was loved by all who knew him.
I hope you are all keeping well, & that you will soon have your dear son with you again. I wont write to him as I feel it means depriving him of a [deleted word] [inserted] a letter [/inserted] from you, & these the reply keeps you waiting for a letter for him, & I know how very precious his letters must be to you – I have left Lewes & am now
[page break]
at the address I have given on this letter.
With best wishes & again many thanks for your kind thought of me.
Yours very sincerely
Ethel W. Pepper
Collection
Citation
Mrs EW Pepper, “Letter to Les Pickford's Mother from Mrs EW Pepper,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed July 21, 2026, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/42100.