Letter to Cathy Cordner from Her Uncle, Neil
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Letter to Cathy Cordner from Her Uncle, Neil
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He thanks her for her letter. Molly, his wife, has just left Shanghai. She is expected to return with Buster, their son. He has sent her a banknote to spend on chocolates.
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1932-03-31
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Two double sided handwritten sheets
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[Shanghai Club crest]
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS,
KWANGHO, SHANGHAI.
P.O. BOX 156.
31/3 ‘32
My dear Cathy,
Ever so many thanks for your nice and welcome letter. I was delighted.
When I decided to answer your letter tonight I found I had only ordinary plain common paper but as your swanky paper called for some equally swanky I have duly trailed all along to the Club – so I hope you feel honoured, there now. By that you will understand that I am not yet living in the Club, there is only a limited number of rooms and as there has been an unusual rush for them by
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poor unhappy (or happy as the case may be) grass-widowers I am for the time being staying at a hotel. However, I expect to move to the Club in a few weeks and I’ll remain there until Aunty Molly returns. Then of course I’ll have to leave because the Club is a sanctuary for we poor hardworking men where nobody would even dare to breathe the word: Woman.
Long ere you get this you will know that Aunty Molly has arrived safely and I hope after a very good trip. It was very sweet of you to think of going down to meet her, what a pleasant surprise it would be, I am quite sure she never anticipated it. I hope it turned out a very nice trip for you and I hope you enjoyed it. But with Arnold about I hardly think there is any
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doubt about that, my young lady.
I am so pleased he got through his exams, and so well, please give him my best congratulations. I wonder if you went down to see Buster school. If you did I think you would like it, wasn’t it a nice place. Poor old man, I am afraid he will be a little sad today leaving the school for good but on the other hand he will also be excited with the prospects of a long holiday with his Mummy. They are bound to have a lovely time together, I wish I could be one of the party too.
Things out here are back to normal once more but I must admit the last couple of months haven’t been very pleasant. I have been all over the battlefields and I have seen enough to last me for a long long [sic] time.
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It is very quiet without Aunty Molly, not so easy to get used to and I must admit I miss her very much, but mind, don’t you tell her that.
Well, my dear Cathy, when you get this letter it will be very near your birthday. I want to wish you a very very [sic] happy day and very many of them. If I had been in Newcastle I should have been there with a box of chocolates and a birthday kiss, I am afraid I’ll have to do without the birthday kiss but there is no reason why you should do without your box of chocolates, but as I cannot very well send one from here will you do your old Uncle a favour and buy yourself one for enclosed little note. Thanks.
A very happy day, Cathy dear, lots of love and a big kiss
from your
Uncle Neil.
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS,
KWANGHO, SHANGHAI.
P.O. BOX 156.
31/3 ‘32
My dear Cathy,
Ever so many thanks for your nice and welcome letter. I was delighted.
When I decided to answer your letter tonight I found I had only ordinary plain common paper but as your swanky paper called for some equally swanky I have duly trailed all along to the Club – so I hope you feel honoured, there now. By that you will understand that I am not yet living in the Club, there is only a limited number of rooms and as there has been an unusual rush for them by
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poor unhappy (or happy as the case may be) grass-widowers I am for the time being staying at a hotel. However, I expect to move to the Club in a few weeks and I’ll remain there until Aunty Molly returns. Then of course I’ll have to leave because the Club is a sanctuary for we poor hardworking men where nobody would even dare to breathe the word: Woman.
Long ere you get this you will know that Aunty Molly has arrived safely and I hope after a very good trip. It was very sweet of you to think of going down to meet her, what a pleasant surprise it would be, I am quite sure she never anticipated it. I hope it turned out a very nice trip for you and I hope you enjoyed it. But with Arnold about I hardly think there is any
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doubt about that, my young lady.
I am so pleased he got through his exams, and so well, please give him my best congratulations. I wonder if you went down to see Buster school. If you did I think you would like it, wasn’t it a nice place. Poor old man, I am afraid he will be a little sad today leaving the school for good but on the other hand he will also be excited with the prospects of a long holiday with his Mummy. They are bound to have a lovely time together, I wish I could be one of the party too.
Things out here are back to normal once more but I must admit the last couple of months haven’t been very pleasant. I have been all over the battlefields and I have seen enough to last me for a long long [sic] time.
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4.
It is very quiet without Aunty Molly, not so easy to get used to and I must admit I miss her very much, but mind, don’t you tell her that.
Well, my dear Cathy, when you get this letter it will be very near your birthday. I want to wish you a very very [sic] happy day and very many of them. If I had been in Newcastle I should have been there with a box of chocolates and a birthday kiss, I am afraid I’ll have to do without the birthday kiss but there is no reason why you should do without your box of chocolates, but as I cannot very well send one from here will you do your old Uncle a favour and buy yourself one for enclosed little note. Thanks.
A very happy day, Cathy dear, lots of love and a big kiss
from your
Uncle Neil.
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Neil Andersen, “Letter to Cathy Cordner from Her Uncle, Neil,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed June 18, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/36347.
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