Letter from David Boldy to his father

Letter from David Boldy to his father

Letter from David Boldy to his father about his good law exams results and visiting aunty Maisie; he now smokes a pipe. He will take Dora to her sisters birthday party and he is still playing tennis.

1939-05-05

Two page handwritten letter

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[inserted] [underlined] P.S. [/underlined] We got [underlined] 7/17 [/underlined] for our littlewoods [sic] football coupon. 13/17 upwards got something. Still, perhaps our this weeks use will be a bit better. [underlined] David. [/underlined] [/inserted]

59, Bathurst Mews,
Lancaster Gate,
London W. 2.,
5th May, 1939.

My own darling Dad,

Thank you very much for your letter and all your news. I am glad to hear the dogs are getting on O.K. & hope Prince’s mange gets O.K. soon.

We got our Criminal Law marks to-day and you will be glad to hear I came third with 55 the highest mark being 60. So now I have got through in Roman Law, Criminal law and English legal system with 46%, 55% and 58% respectively which is jolly good. There is only Constitutional law left & I think I have failed in that. I shall work it up. I am now working steadily. Everybody, I mean all my friends are surprised at my results.

I now smoke a pipe, very manly! We went to Aunty Maisie’s on Sunday and had a pleasant day. It was only the third day I had had my pipe, but I was smoking it so expertly that Aunty Maisie thought I had had it for a long time.

I suppose Mum must have told you [deleted] about [/deleted] that Aunty Maisie and Uncle Bob would probably sell up Bosky Dell.

Yesterday I went to Mitcham for the heats. I did not come anywhere in the 100 yds. I scratched from

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the rest of the events because I slipped in the 100 yds (at a false start) and pulled a muscle slightly and furthermore I had done no training so it was not worth straining myself.

I am playing singles tomorrow with Cecil, my partner in the “Evening News” doubles. On Sunday Cecil, Peter, Ronnie & I are playing doubles.

I am going to Helen’s birthday party tomorrow night. Helen is Dora’s sister. It will be my first real outing since I came back from Folkestone, almost a month.

You will also be glad to hear that the first batch of Conscripts are to be called up on June 30th, just after my exams so it won’t interfere with my studies.

Laws table tennis is getting on fine. Our Champion [indecipherable word] is back. His leg is still bad but he plays a bit and if his leg does not give way we should pull off the finals on Thursday.

No more to-day. Love to Mrs Joseph. God bless & keep you and bring you back safely to us. With lots of love & kisses from your loving son

[underlined] David [/underlined].