Letter from Frank Hobbs to his daughter

EHobbsFJStorerB430203-0001.jpg
EHobbsFJStorerB430203-0002.jpg

Title

Letter from Frank Hobbs to his daughter

Description

Writes that he is sorry she has caught mumps and then catches up on family news. Writes of activities on his last leave and encourages her to be good and to do dance lessons.

Creator

Date

1943-02-03

Temporal Coverage

Spatial Coverage

Language

Format

Two page handwritten letter

Rights

This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.

Identifier

EHobbsFJStorerB430203

Transcription

c/o SERGEANTS MESS.
RAF. CAMP.
NORTH LUFFENHAM.
RUTLAND.
3-2-43.
DEAREST FID
I’M AWFULLY SORRY TO HEAR YOU HAVE BEEN AND GOT YOURSELF MUMPS, BY THIS TIME I EXPECT YOU HAVE NEARLY GOT OVER THE WORST PART AND ARE FEELING A BIT CHIRPY AGAIN. MUMMY TOLD ME THAT YOU HAD BEEN A VERY GOOD GIRL, SHE ALSO TOLD ME THAT AUNTY TWIST HAD NOT BEEN FEELING VERY WELL, I HOPE SHE IS BETTER NOW YOU ARE A FINE ONE, EVERY TIME
[page break]
I COME HOME ON LEAVE YOU HAVE TO GO AND CATCH SOMETHING. NEVER MIND LOVELY I WILL STILL COME HOME AND TAKE YOU AROUND TO SOME SHOWS MAC IS WRITING TO YOU ALSO SO WHEN YOU WRITE TO ME YOU WILL HAVE TO ENCLOSE A NOTE TO HIM. GIVE MY LOVE TO MUMMY. ALSO A BIG HUG AND KISS. AND TELL HER TO TRY NOT TO WORRY BECAUSE YOU ARE GOING TO BE A VERY GOOD GIRL TRY AND GET SOME DANCING LESSONS OFF OF MUMMY BECAUSE I WANT TO DANCE WITH YOU AT THE “LOCARNO” AS WELL AS MAC
GOODNIGHT HONEYBUNCH
WRITE ME SOON
LOVE AND KISSES, DADDY.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Collection

Citation

Frank Hobbs, “Letter from Frank Hobbs to his daughter,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed February 17, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/10033.

Item Relations

This item has no relations.