Letter from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine

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Title

Letter from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine

Description

Writes that daily help has arrived and catches up with news of friends. Continues with descriptions of activities including church and then about electrical items breaking. Describes state of garden and that she had spent the 10 shillings he sent on food.

Date

1942-04-22

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Format

Four page handwritten letter

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Transcription

No. 16 Lido; Wed. April 22
My darling Johnnie, thank heavens Florence has turned up this morning & has a full programme of scrubbing & cleaning ahead of her. She is due to come tomorrow too, tho' I'm not at all sure that she will stay for many months. However sufficient into the day are the troubles thereof.
Roy Cowdry rang up last night. He said he'd received a letter from you some days ago but is now doing a teachers training course or some such thing & next week has exams, so asks to be excused if he doesn't reply to you for a while.
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He was apparently very pleased with the photo of Frances, the laughing one. Told him you had contacted the Padre, & he always sounds genuinely pleased to hear about our spiritual progress – such as it is! I managed to get up early & go to Communion last Sunday, & I must say that on re-reading the Bible with a slightly more adult intelligence a lot of things which I hadn't understood are much clearer now.
Our electric clock is now repaired & working satisfactorily again. Mr Hillman, Chris's father did it & seems to have made a good job of it. He seemed to think it a nice clock & rather coveted it for himself!
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Now the radiogram has died on us. At least we could get nothing nearer than Paris & Rome & those all blurred, so Peter investigated & found one valve gone which he is trying to replace in Rugby. Meanwhile we have brought your set in again, & lo & behold, it works perfectly. It seems there was nothing wrong with the set before, it was a faulty connection to the aerial which was causing all the uproar. The gramophone part of the radiogram still works alright, so we lack for nothing.
The garden is looking quite jolly, the little mauve primulas are out
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all over the place, & so are muscari & scyllas & arabis. The peonies are full of bud, & forgetmenots will be out soon too. There are quite a lot of daffodils & narcissus in bloom too, & it all look fairly tidy as the weeds haven't really got going yet. I think I'll try to get old Lilley to come in & cut the grass & the hedge, but I won't let him meddle with the plants! You will be sorry to hear that I've spent the 10/- you sent. There were so many things I needed for the house, coffee & ground rice & so on, & it mostly went. I've borrowed 6d to last over today, & tomorrow I get paid. I'm not drawing my extra 3/6 with a view to getting a Saving Cert every 4 weeks – cock-eyed logic but there it is. It's Bunty's birthday on 26th. Will a card do for her & Irene? What about Ann's, coming in May? Any ideas?
All my love & best wishes Ursula

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Ursula Valentine, “Letter from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed March 29, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/19876.

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