Letter from James Burnside to Kay
Title
Letter from James Burnside to Kay
Description
Writes that he has been issued with a bicycle and plans to celebrate skipper's birthday. Mentions photographs and that his birthday had come and gone. End with endearment.
Creator
Date
1943-06-02
Temporal Coverage
Language
Format
Two page handwritten letter
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Contributor
Identifier
EBurnsideJGBBurnsideKE430602
Transcription
Address as before.
June 2/43.
Kay Darling.
Your letter of Mondays [sic] to hand yesterday.
Sorry to read that you don’t like your pen, I suggest you take it back & tell them either to change it there & then or save you a broad nib & then have it changed.
You’d laugh! we have all been issued with bikes, Ian & Charlie do nothing else but ride around in circles going up banks in fact behaving like a couple of school kids.
The skipper suggests that as it's my birthday we – the crew – all go to Boston tomorrow, so we’ll see!
I clean forgot about the photographs, I must really attend to them when I fetch the Riley.
Stil keeping pretty busy, & really like my new kite.
[page break]
2.
It’s nearly 10.30 & must get weaving on my laundry, should have been in today.
Well sweetheart, my birthday has [deleted letter] come round again, another year gone, how do you feel with an Old man for a husband, of course I was forgetting you’r [sic] ag[deleted letter]ing at the same time: I believe you are 32! yes? no?
Thank heavens Ian & Charlie have Shut up, they have done nothing but talk & argue.
I’ve got that Snap of you & [indecipherable word] pinned up in front of me, do you remember? taken
at Constantine Bay, you're dressed in slacks.
Goodnight my Darling see you soon.
All my love
Yours always
[underlined] Jim [/underlined].
June 2/43.
Kay Darling.
Your letter of Mondays [sic] to hand yesterday.
Sorry to read that you don’t like your pen, I suggest you take it back & tell them either to change it there & then or save you a broad nib & then have it changed.
You’d laugh! we have all been issued with bikes, Ian & Charlie do nothing else but ride around in circles going up banks in fact behaving like a couple of school kids.
The skipper suggests that as it's my birthday we – the crew – all go to Boston tomorrow, so we’ll see!
I clean forgot about the photographs, I must really attend to them when I fetch the Riley.
Stil keeping pretty busy, & really like my new kite.
[page break]
2.
It’s nearly 10.30 & must get weaving on my laundry, should have been in today.
Well sweetheart, my birthday has [deleted letter] come round again, another year gone, how do you feel with an Old man for a husband, of course I was forgetting you’r [sic] ag[deleted letter]ing at the same time: I believe you are 32! yes? no?
Thank heavens Ian & Charlie have Shut up, they have done nothing but talk & argue.
I’ve got that Snap of you & [indecipherable word] pinned up in front of me, do you remember? taken
at Constantine Bay, you're dressed in slacks.
Goodnight my Darling see you soon.
All my love
Yours always
[underlined] Jim [/underlined].
Collection
Citation
J G B Burnside, “Letter from James Burnside to Kay,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed July 27, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/37822.
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