Postcard from John Valentine to his wife Ursula
Title
Postcard from John Valentine to his wife Ursula
Description
Number 74-131. Sympathises over house hunting issues and comments on sporadic mail. Discusses financial matters and send thanks for books parcel. Comments on weather.
Creator
Date
1943-10-20
Temporal Coverage
Language
Format
Two sided handwritten postcard
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Contributor
Identifier
EValentineJRMValentineUM431020
Transcription
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20th October 1943
Very happy indeed to have yours of 15th August & 14th September on same day! What terrific & exhausting househunting efforts you made from P.M. Bitterly sorry you weren’t luckier. Very sorry to hear of the absence of my mail. Yours come through quite well here, even if irregularly. This is my [one word censored] I wrote on every date that is a multiple of 5. Anxiously awaiting news re Chalfont. Another parcel from Mrs Hoare – books sent off 1st June Please thank her most sincerely. It is only the interest included in each Building Soc. Payment that may be set off against income for tax purposes. We still await cool here but the weather’s a bit milder than it wa [censored rest of sentence] I hope this is not too late to send my fondest love & best wishes for 8th Dec I’ll think of you especially. Same to Ba 30th Nov. Love to all
John.
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74/131
[two ink stamps]
M [underlined] RS [/underlined] U M. VALENTINE
C/O LITTLE CLOSE
DEVON ROAD
SALCOMBE, DEVON.
ENGLAND
Sgt JRm VALENTINE
450
STALAG LUFT III LAGER “A”
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20th October 1943
Very happy indeed to have yours of 15th August & 14th September on same day! What terrific & exhausting househunting efforts you made from P.M. Bitterly sorry you weren’t luckier. Very sorry to hear of the absence of my mail. Yours come through quite well here, even if irregularly. This is my [one word censored] I wrote on every date that is a multiple of 5. Anxiously awaiting news re Chalfont. Another parcel from Mrs Hoare – books sent off 1st June Please thank her most sincerely. It is only the interest included in each Building Soc. Payment that may be set off against income for tax purposes. We still await cool here but the weather’s a bit milder than it wa [censored rest of sentence] I hope this is not too late to send my fondest love & best wishes for 8th Dec I’ll think of you especially. Same to Ba 30th Nov. Love to all
John.
[page break]
74/131
[two ink stamps]
M [underlined] RS [/underlined] U M. VALENTINE
C/O LITTLE CLOSE
DEVON ROAD
SALCOMBE, DEVON.
ENGLAND
Sgt JRm VALENTINE
450
STALAG LUFT III LAGER “A”
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Collection
Citation
John Ross Mckenzie Valentine, “Postcard from John Valentine to his wife Ursula,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed April 25, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/19367.
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