Letter from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine
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Letter from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine
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Writes about her neighbours and their daughter.
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Two page handwritten letter
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EValentineUMValentineJRM411111
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Lido
Tuesday 11.11.41
My dearest,
I was so glad to receive your letter this morning & learn that you had arrived safely. May you often go “Banburying” again if the journey really isn’t too bad.
Frances now weighs 20 lbs! She has put on 8 oz this week, and 20 lbs at 7 months isn’t too bad!
I went round to Mrs Hagard yesterday to ask her about starting a Saving Group but met her just coming out. Olivia has gone away to stay with Peggy Girling & is probably going back to Stanmore later, & Mrs H herself thinks she’s got too
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much to do, but she seemed enthusiastic about the idea & is going to try to persuade a neighbour to take it on. I took her the veal bones for her dog. In the course of conversation I mentioned playing chess with you, & she asked me if I would show David how to play, as the parents don’t know & he is struggling to learn out of a book. So he is probably coming round tomorrow evening when Ba is on night duty for his first lesson. Talk about the blind leading the blind!
I do hope you’ll get some more leave. Let me know as soon as poss.
All my love to my own darling
Ursula.
Tuesday 11.11.41
My dearest,
I was so glad to receive your letter this morning & learn that you had arrived safely. May you often go “Banburying” again if the journey really isn’t too bad.
Frances now weighs 20 lbs! She has put on 8 oz this week, and 20 lbs at 7 months isn’t too bad!
I went round to Mrs Hagard yesterday to ask her about starting a Saving Group but met her just coming out. Olivia has gone away to stay with Peggy Girling & is probably going back to Stanmore later, & Mrs H herself thinks she’s got too
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much to do, but she seemed enthusiastic about the idea & is going to try to persuade a neighbour to take it on. I took her the veal bones for her dog. In the course of conversation I mentioned playing chess with you, & she asked me if I would show David how to play, as the parents don’t know & he is struggling to learn out of a book. So he is probably coming round tomorrow evening when Ba is on night duty for his first lesson. Talk about the blind leading the blind!
I do hope you’ll get some more leave. Let me know as soon as poss.
All my love to my own darling
Ursula.
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Ursula Valentine, “Letter from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed August 24, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/19671.
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