Letter from Jack Hay to 'Auntie'
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Letter from Jack Hay to 'Auntie'
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Complains about speed of mail and passes on new address and mentions mail received. Catches up with family news and gossip.
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1939-09-25
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One page handwritten letter
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SFieldPL907804v10046
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Hqrs. 71 Wing
R.A.F.
c/o Army Post Office.
23rd Sept. 1939.
Dear Auntie,
Just received your letter of the 16th – seems to have taken hell of a time to come out. Have heard from Maude daily up till day before yesterday, but not for last two days. Our address is now changed since yesterday to above so if the Army P.O. are going to handle mail it will probably take about six weeks to get here! You might send two letters off by same post, one addressed as above, the other to Hqrs. 71 Wing, A.A.S.F., c/o R.A.F. Station, Abingdon – I should be interested to see which arrived first. What you saw in papers about no letters is all tripe – Maud’s have been coming out regularly. Sounds tripe to say Ian unfit, especially as he was passed fit when he sat for Cranwell. You omit to say, however, nature of his complaint. I wrote to Sheila about her idea of leaving typing etc. & said I left it entirely in the hands of fond mama! That I had had other ideas about Ian but was not allowed to interfere & that I had no intention of attempting to do so again. I hope that got home. Are you asking Maud over to lunch Sundays – I gathered from her the bus times were all altered now. She had not heard anything from me up to her letter of the 18th which I got on 21st. There is nothing whatever to do in this place & I have never seen such a comic war in my life. Apparently no one is doing anything, & the Hun does not come over here. One did the other day, though, & got shot down after bringing down
R.A.F.
c/o Army Post Office.
23rd Sept. 1939.
Dear Auntie,
Just received your letter of the 16th – seems to have taken hell of a time to come out. Have heard from Maude daily up till day before yesterday, but not for last two days. Our address is now changed since yesterday to above so if the Army P.O. are going to handle mail it will probably take about six weeks to get here! You might send two letters off by same post, one addressed as above, the other to Hqrs. 71 Wing, A.A.S.F., c/o R.A.F. Station, Abingdon – I should be interested to see which arrived first. What you saw in papers about no letters is all tripe – Maud’s have been coming out regularly. Sounds tripe to say Ian unfit, especially as he was passed fit when he sat for Cranwell. You omit to say, however, nature of his complaint. I wrote to Sheila about her idea of leaving typing etc. & said I left it entirely in the hands of fond mama! That I had had other ideas about Ian but was not allowed to interfere & that I had no intention of attempting to do so again. I hope that got home. Are you asking Maud over to lunch Sundays – I gathered from her the bus times were all altered now. She had not heard anything from me up to her letter of the 18th which I got on 21st. There is nothing whatever to do in this place & I have never seen such a comic war in my life. Apparently no one is doing anything, & the Hun does not come over here. One did the other day, though, & got shot down after bringing down
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J V Hay, “Letter from Jack Hay to 'Auntie',” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed July 22, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/37258.
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