Letter from Ken Barnett to Bessie
Title
Letter from Ken Barnett to Bessie
Description
He apologises for hot having written sooner. Bessie, his sister, is about to get married and he is not happy about that. He describes a little about his training.
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Date
1943-11-02
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Format
One handwritten envelope and three handwritten sheets
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Identifier
EBarnettKGBarnettB431102-0001, EBarnettKGBarnettB431102-0002, EBarnettKGBarnettB431102-0003, EBarnettKGBarnettB431102-0004, EBarnettKGBarnettB431102-0005
Transcription
[postmark Barry, Glamorgan 2 November 1943]
[postage stamp]
W/140046
Miss B Barnett
B Coy Att. 14th Trng. Bttn.
(Arts) R.A.S.C.
Ramsden Hall
Billericay
[underlined] Essex [/underlined]
[page break]
[inserted] [underlined] 49021 [/underlined] [/inserted]
[page break]
[Royal Air Force crest]
Room 4 Block 4
Maintenance Flts
RAF Bramcote
Nr Nuneaton
Warwicks’
My dear Bessie
I know this letter is a bit delayed but, I dont [sic] know, we seem to have dropped off writing to each other quite a lot.
I dont [sic] know why, because I still think quite a lot about you & I [deleted] k [/deleted] somehow dont [sic] like the idea of you getting married. It wont seem quite the same. Did you see Yankee Doodle Dandy. Well I feel about like James Cagney did when his sister got married.
Well I suppose you wont think much of me talking or rather writing
[page break]
like this but it must be that brotherly feeling in me.
Well, whats [sic] cooking down your way? Anything new. There’s nothing much happening round here only a lot of hard work. We work now from 1/4 past 7 until 6 o’clock all day & every day. We never know one day from another & only 1 hr of [sic] for dinner. Here I go grumbling again. I suppose you have enough to put up with, without me “binding” [underlined] every [/underlined] time I write. Well I’ll see if I can change the subject.
Did you know Gladys was, or is going in the A.T.S. I dont [sic] know what as, but she seems as if she wants to get out of Holbeach.
[page break]
When are you going home on leave again? Have you altered it? You were going on the 19th the last time I heard from you, dont [sic] forget to let me know if you are not going on that date & I’ll see if I can get mine at the same time
Well, I started writing this letter to you & got stuck with it so I’ve started two more since then & I keep adding a bit on each.
Well Bessie I cant think of any more to write about just now & Its [sic] getting late so.
Cheerio Lots of Love
Ken
XXXXXXXXXXXX
[postage stamp]
W/140046
Miss B Barnett
B Coy Att. 14th Trng. Bttn.
(Arts) R.A.S.C.
Ramsden Hall
Billericay
[underlined] Essex [/underlined]
[page break]
[inserted] [underlined] 49021 [/underlined] [/inserted]
[page break]
[Royal Air Force crest]
Room 4 Block 4
Maintenance Flts
RAF Bramcote
Nr Nuneaton
Warwicks’
My dear Bessie
I know this letter is a bit delayed but, I dont [sic] know, we seem to have dropped off writing to each other quite a lot.
I dont [sic] know why, because I still think quite a lot about you & I [deleted] k [/deleted] somehow dont [sic] like the idea of you getting married. It wont seem quite the same. Did you see Yankee Doodle Dandy. Well I feel about like James Cagney did when his sister got married.
Well I suppose you wont think much of me talking or rather writing
[page break]
like this but it must be that brotherly feeling in me.
Well, whats [sic] cooking down your way? Anything new. There’s nothing much happening round here only a lot of hard work. We work now from 1/4 past 7 until 6 o’clock all day & every day. We never know one day from another & only 1 hr of [sic] for dinner. Here I go grumbling again. I suppose you have enough to put up with, without me “binding” [underlined] every [/underlined] time I write. Well I’ll see if I can change the subject.
Did you know Gladys was, or is going in the A.T.S. I dont [sic] know what as, but she seems as if she wants to get out of Holbeach.
[page break]
When are you going home on leave again? Have you altered it? You were going on the 19th the last time I heard from you, dont [sic] forget to let me know if you are not going on that date & I’ll see if I can get mine at the same time
Well, I started writing this letter to you & got stuck with it so I’ve started two more since then & I keep adding a bit on each.
Well Bessie I cant think of any more to write about just now & Its [sic] getting late so.
Cheerio Lots of Love
Ken
XXXXXXXXXXXX
Collection
Citation
Ken Barnett, “Letter from Ken Barnett to Bessie,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed April 26, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/34821.
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