Letter to Glen Brooks from Gwenn and his Mother
Title
Letter to Glen Brooks from Gwenn and his Mother
Description
The letter discusses Glenn's hospital duties, the new road, heavy snowfall, ice skating, the film 'Miss Miniver' and domestic news.
Creator
Date
1943-01-31
Temporal Coverage
Coverage
Language
Format
Eight handwritten sheets
Publisher
Rights
This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
Contributor
Identifier
EBrooksDBrooksGW430131-0001, EBrooksDBrooksGW430131-0002, EBrooksDBrooksGW430131-0003, EBrooksDBrooksGW430131-0004, EBrooksDBrooksGW430131-0005, EBrooksDBrooksGW430131-0006, EBrooksDBrooksGW430131-0007, EBrooksDBrooksGW430131-0008
Transcription
R.R.4. Brownsville, Ont.
January 31, 1943.
Dear Glenn,
We received your letter on Friday and were pleased to hear that you are progressing so well with your hospital duties. I don't think that a little practice washing dishes will prove harmful to your rugged physic, do you?
Mother was talking to Aunt Myrtle the other day and she said that Johnnie
[page break]
Page II
Grooms is to be married on the 6th of February. He is to marry a high school teacher from Three Rivers, Quebec. Aunt Myrtle said that she was an Anglican so I guess we won't have a French Canadian in the family anyway. I think Doris is going west with her husband after the wedding, which will be held in Three Rivers.
We have our road open now but we still get stuck going down sometimes. Dad
[page break]
Page III
took Grant and myself into town skating last night. It was snowing rather fast but we enjoyed ourselves. However we got stuck south of the bridge coming home and had to walk the rest of the way.
We went to see “Mrs Miniver” on Thursday evening and got there at about 6.45 so we managed to crowd into the first show. They were lined up to the post-office corner for both performances. Grant went in with Bill, Ross and Casey and stood in line from 8 to 10.15 before he got in to see it.
[page break]
Page IV
We all enjoyed it a great deal however and thought it was worth standing in line for.
Aunt Verna called long distance this afternoon and said that they were all fine although they haven't had their car going for a month.
The road north of Quisney's isn't opened up yet so Mr. Barnett drives Brian and I in each morning in the cutter. We have to walk home at night though, which I don't like. So I am hoping for a thaw to open the road.
[page break]
Page V
There were quite a few at the Forum last Mon. night. We took the horse and cutter and Milton Wights drove the tractor and trailer down as far as Mr. Clarice Allin's. It was on “Credit Unidis” {sic} and I didn't know a thing about it. However I scribbled something down and Mr. Heyland said he thought the young people did better than the older ones. Can you believe that?
Did Dora get up for the week-end? We heard over
[page break]
Page VI
the radio that a ship load of veteran soldiers and airmen had arrived from England and we wondered if Dora's brother might be aboard it.
Our literary program is on Wednesday so I guess we won't do much at school until that is over. I try my harmony examine a week from Saturday and so am quite busy with that also.
Well I really must close as I have rambled on about nothing for several pages. Mother will
[page break]
Page VII
write a few lines although I think I have told you all the news for now.
Write when you have time.
Love,
“Gwennie”
Dear Glenn,
I guess Gwen has told you everything so I will have have [sic] to say what is left. I missed your coming home this weekend I had saved a chicken so we had to have it without you tonight. Oh I get them filled up once in a while. We hear
[page break]
your rations are to be cut so hope they won't overdo it. Dad is getting a calf from Uncle Ed. So Grant may take the cutter and miss school tomorrow, also he is shipping one tomorrow. The forum is at Morrells tomorrow night. We were at Muttons last week. Dad asked Dean if your car was all right there and he said yes and it looked all right when Dad passed there last night.
I gather that you are not fond of your new job but you must put your best into it, if you expect to get ahead in the air force.
Well I must close.
Love .
Mother.
January 31, 1943.
Dear Glenn,
We received your letter on Friday and were pleased to hear that you are progressing so well with your hospital duties. I don't think that a little practice washing dishes will prove harmful to your rugged physic, do you?
Mother was talking to Aunt Myrtle the other day and she said that Johnnie
[page break]
Page II
Grooms is to be married on the 6th of February. He is to marry a high school teacher from Three Rivers, Quebec. Aunt Myrtle said that she was an Anglican so I guess we won't have a French Canadian in the family anyway. I think Doris is going west with her husband after the wedding, which will be held in Three Rivers.
We have our road open now but we still get stuck going down sometimes. Dad
[page break]
Page III
took Grant and myself into town skating last night. It was snowing rather fast but we enjoyed ourselves. However we got stuck south of the bridge coming home and had to walk the rest of the way.
We went to see “Mrs Miniver” on Thursday evening and got there at about 6.45 so we managed to crowd into the first show. They were lined up to the post-office corner for both performances. Grant went in with Bill, Ross and Casey and stood in line from 8 to 10.15 before he got in to see it.
[page break]
Page IV
We all enjoyed it a great deal however and thought it was worth standing in line for.
Aunt Verna called long distance this afternoon and said that they were all fine although they haven't had their car going for a month.
The road north of Quisney's isn't opened up yet so Mr. Barnett drives Brian and I in each morning in the cutter. We have to walk home at night though, which I don't like. So I am hoping for a thaw to open the road.
[page break]
Page V
There were quite a few at the Forum last Mon. night. We took the horse and cutter and Milton Wights drove the tractor and trailer down as far as Mr. Clarice Allin's. It was on “Credit Unidis” {sic} and I didn't know a thing about it. However I scribbled something down and Mr. Heyland said he thought the young people did better than the older ones. Can you believe that?
Did Dora get up for the week-end? We heard over
[page break]
Page VI
the radio that a ship load of veteran soldiers and airmen had arrived from England and we wondered if Dora's brother might be aboard it.
Our literary program is on Wednesday so I guess we won't do much at school until that is over. I try my harmony examine a week from Saturday and so am quite busy with that also.
Well I really must close as I have rambled on about nothing for several pages. Mother will
[page break]
Page VII
write a few lines although I think I have told you all the news for now.
Write when you have time.
Love,
“Gwennie”
Dear Glenn,
I guess Gwen has told you everything so I will have have [sic] to say what is left. I missed your coming home this weekend I had saved a chicken so we had to have it without you tonight. Oh I get them filled up once in a while. We hear
[page break]
your rations are to be cut so hope they won't overdo it. Dad is getting a calf from Uncle Ed. So Grant may take the cutter and miss school tomorrow, also he is shipping one tomorrow. The forum is at Morrells tomorrow night. We were at Muttons last week. Dad asked Dean if your car was all right there and he said yes and it looked all right when Dad passed there last night.
I gather that you are not fond of your new job but you must put your best into it, if you expect to get ahead in the air force.
Well I must close.
Love .
Mother.
Collection
Citation
Gwen, “Letter to Glen Brooks from Gwenn and his Mother,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed April 30, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/30380.
Item Relations
This item has no relations.