Letter from David Boldy to his father
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Letter from David Boldy to his father
Description
Letter from David Boldy to his father with general conversation about attending St. Paul’s School in Darjeeling, Describes going to the pictures and due to not being allowed to go riding has been reading, to pass the time. Went shooting, shot two sparrows and ate them. Injured his heel badly and spent time in bed.
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1933-11-27
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Two page handwriten letter
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EBoldyDABoldyAD331204
Transcription
ST. PAUL’S SCHOOL,
JALAPAHAR,
DARJEELING.
4th December 1933.
My Darling Daddy.
Thanks for your letter. I went to the Pictures with Mrs Forbes to Destry Rides Again” by Tom Mix.” It was very good. Stevie and I went to the Pictures on Saturday with Mummy to “A Perfect Understanding.” It was not to [sic] good. We went out to Mummy yesterday. With the riding leave stopped I have nothing to do. So I read books. I read Brent of Gatehouse by Gunby Hadath. Also The Sea Hawk, Captain Blood his Odyssey and the Chronicles of Captain Blood. By Rafael Sabatini. They are all very good stories.
Young Cox wrote to me and I wrote back. It is much colder now.
[indecipherable word] Forbes & me go shooting with a daisy air gun. We shot a sparrow
[page break]
each yesterday and ate them.
I hurt my heel badly when vaulting a railing and was in bed for three days. I am out of bed now though. Mrs Forbes says if I had fallen on my heel a little more heavily I [deleted] have [/deleted] would have fractured the bone. No more news today.
With lots of love & Kisses from
your loving son.
[underlined] David. [/underlined]
JALAPAHAR,
DARJEELING.
4th December 1933.
My Darling Daddy.
Thanks for your letter. I went to the Pictures with Mrs Forbes to Destry Rides Again” by Tom Mix.” It was very good. Stevie and I went to the Pictures on Saturday with Mummy to “A Perfect Understanding.” It was not to [sic] good. We went out to Mummy yesterday. With the riding leave stopped I have nothing to do. So I read books. I read Brent of Gatehouse by Gunby Hadath. Also The Sea Hawk, Captain Blood his Odyssey and the Chronicles of Captain Blood. By Rafael Sabatini. They are all very good stories.
Young Cox wrote to me and I wrote back. It is much colder now.
[indecipherable word] Forbes & me go shooting with a daisy air gun. We shot a sparrow
[page break]
each yesterday and ate them.
I hurt my heel badly when vaulting a railing and was in bed for three days. I am out of bed now though. Mrs Forbes says if I had fallen on my heel a little more heavily I [deleted] have [/deleted] would have fractured the bone. No more news today.
With lots of love & Kisses from
your loving son.
[underlined] David. [/underlined]
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David Boldy, “Letter from David Boldy to his father,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed April 18, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/449.
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