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Title
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Akrill, William. Letters written at thirteen
Description
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Ten illustrated letters written to Billy Akrill's father who was in hospital in 1935. The letters refer to farm activities in Newark and Nottinghamshire: animals, the weather and his family and include illustrated stories. There are also cartoons and drawings, some coloured.
Creator
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Billy Akrill
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2017-12-04
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Akrill, WE
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Potter Hill Farm,
Collingham,
Newark. Notts.
22 May 1935.
Dear Daddy
Calves have been sold. Result:- Top Nancy £15..10s (+ £1..17s 6d)
Walter Wells £12 ..15s
B. Renshaw £10 .. 15s
F. Cook £10 .. 0s.
Bernard Wells £7 .. 10s
J. Hemsal £6 .. 10s.
Average £10 .. 10s
Morris Sheldon bought Nancy. He’s keeping her ‘till Christmas. The Co’op Butcher wanted her too. Harry took her round. Crowds of folks came to look at her & asked if she had to go through the auction. We had her graded (M Sheldon paid). Substiby [sic] £1 .. 17s 6d. Total price £17 .. 7s .. 6d. Mrs Fitz Herbert asked me how much I thought she’d make I told her Harry said £15. She said if she made £12 I should do well. Charlie Bird charged 14/- for the 6. Harry & a lot more rode in with calves
About messed up when they came out. Of course Nancy was.
Mary & I took the 7 pigs. They made 26/6 each. £9.5s 6d altogether I think we had a good (& certainly busy) day Harry drew £26 .. 1s .. 6d. Newark [underlined] very [/underlined] busy.
Battles have just brought 10 buckets & 1 drum of sheep dip
Got 14 more gibs (so far) that makes 51. The biggest are beauties. [drawing of a bird]
[deleted] [indecipherable sentence] [/deleted]
Well I’ll feed the gibs etc.
Toodle oo
[underlined] Billy [/underlined]
[drawings of farm animals, people and vans]
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Title
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Letter from Billy Akrill to his father
Description
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Lists recently sold calves, prices and the names of their new owners. Comments on the sales process and about taking the pigs to market, includes amounts made from their sale also. Includes drawings of the cow auction and market.
Creator
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Billy Akrill
Date
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1935-05-22
Contributor
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Tricia Marshall
Format
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Two page handwritten illustrated letter
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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Artwork
Identifier
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SAkrillWE1436220v10003
Coverage
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Civilian
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Nottinghamshire
England--Newark (Nottinghamshire)
Temporal Coverage
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1935-05
Rights
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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.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
animal
arts and crafts