Letter from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine

Letter from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine

Thanks him for letters and comments on weather. Writes about gardening and plans to go down to Gloucestershire. Mentions sending photographs for his comment. Hopes he will have done his 10th trip done and application for commission in by June 8.

1942-05-27

Two page handwritten letter

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No 6.
Lido
Wed. May 27

Dearest Johnny,

Thanks for your letter of the 24th No. 4. You seem to be having the same changeable weather as we are. Yesterday it poured all afternoon & turned fine in the evening, so I did a spot of gardening after tea, weeded the vegetables, staked the peas etc. We are eating our way slowly through the spring cabbage, & I have filled the empty places with the thinnings[?] of calabrese[sic] & with some other seedlings (self-sown) of greens, probably cauliflowers. By the way, when Ann[?] & I were planting peas the other day I took the opportunity to fill in gaps in the ranks of earlier sowings.

We are going down to Gloucestershire on Friday 29th by the 1.00 pm & returning probably Tuesday getting home at 3.30 or 4 pm. The address is “Lady Cottage”, Notgrove, near Cheltenham, Glos. I do hope the weather will be a bit more settled by then. We are hoping

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for a really lazy time.

I’m sending you the photos of Roy. We haven’t heard his comment on them yet, but should like to know yours too. If you would like a print of any of them for yourself, please say so on the back of the appropriate one (in pencil) & return the whole issue to us in due course. I do hope the photos that Ma[?] took of you before you left will turn out well. She hasn’t exposed the rest of the film yet, so we have to be patient.

It’s grand that you can get so much reading done, if you can’t be getting your flying hours disposed of. I hope you’ll have your 10th trip done & your application for a commission in by June 8th!

I do love getting a letter from you every day & hope it’s not too much of a bore for you.

All my love to you, dearest one; & whole week out of the six has gone already!

Yours for always
Ursula.

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