Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Title
Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Description
Letter number 29. Thanks them for letter and mentions time mail takes. Catches up with news and talks of leave plans and nearly finished.
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Date
1944-06-06
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Format
Two page handwritten letter and envelope
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Identifier
EHudsonJDHudsonP-HE440606
Transcription
29.
[postmark]
[postage stamp]
Mr. & Mrs. H. E. Hudson.
191. Halifax Road.
Nelson.
Lancashire.
[page break]
[underlined] Letter No. 29. [/underlined]
Tuesday. 2 pm
My dear Mother & Dad,
This is just a short note to say thank you for your letter of Monday just received, & to let you know that I & the boys & Rooster are all O.K.
Thank you for all you say in your letter. I am so glad you received my two Sunday letters so promptly. The mail in the North fares much better than the mail down South & Alice’s letters & mine to her take 2 & sometimes 3 days.
Hammy says he’d like to meet my ‘Mom & Pop’ before he & I
[page break]
say ‘au revoir’ he is going to spend his leave near Edinburgh & I am wondering if it could be arranged somehow for him to see you for a day. [inserted] (Maybe he could travel to M/cr with me, & Mother could meet him then) [/inserted]
Alice wonders if I shall see her for a day or two as well. If I get ten days, I may try & plan to meet her, [deleted] if [/deleted] but I think I shall wait first until I know exactly what the score is. We shall all have a lot to celebrate, but the parting after this leave will not be as difficult as in the past.
Just now I cannot write decently. A combination of ‘nearly finished,’ & 2nd fruit excitement probably.
Bye for now, all my love & best wishes Douglas.
[postmark]
[postage stamp]
Mr. & Mrs. H. E. Hudson.
191. Halifax Road.
Nelson.
Lancashire.
[page break]
[underlined] Letter No. 29. [/underlined]
Tuesday. 2 pm
My dear Mother & Dad,
This is just a short note to say thank you for your letter of Monday just received, & to let you know that I & the boys & Rooster are all O.K.
Thank you for all you say in your letter. I am so glad you received my two Sunday letters so promptly. The mail in the North fares much better than the mail down South & Alice’s letters & mine to her take 2 & sometimes 3 days.
Hammy says he’d like to meet my ‘Mom & Pop’ before he & I
[page break]
say ‘au revoir’ he is going to spend his leave near Edinburgh & I am wondering if it could be arranged somehow for him to see you for a day. [inserted] (Maybe he could travel to M/cr with me, & Mother could meet him then) [/inserted]
Alice wonders if I shall see her for a day or two as well. If I get ten days, I may try & plan to meet her, [deleted] if [/deleted] but I think I shall wait first until I know exactly what the score is. We shall all have a lot to celebrate, but the parting after this leave will not be as difficult as in the past.
Just now I cannot write decently. A combination of ‘nearly finished,’ & 2nd fruit excitement probably.
Bye for now, all my love & best wishes Douglas.
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Citation
J D Hudson, “Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents ,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed March 25, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/23020.
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