Letter from David Boldy to his mother

Letter from David Boldy to his mother

Letter from David Boldy to his mother. General conversation about life at St. Paul's school in Darjeeling, with references to severe water shortage, hockey matches and an earthquake.

1931-03-22

Two page handwritten letter

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St. Paul’s School.
Jalapahar.
22/3/31/

My darling Mummy,

thank you for your letter of the 16th. I was very glad to get and that you have arrived safetley [sic]. I am very glad that you like the school. It has not rained at all through the [deleted] holdi [/deleted] holidays and if it does not rain we shall have to go home because their [sic] is very little water [deleted] n [/deleted] now and that will get used up the water supply only comes on at early in the morning and goes on till 8 o clock [sic] in the morning and then comes on again at 4 o clock [sic]. We had a hockey match against the town team and beat them, the [inserted] score [/inserted] being 1-0, so we won our 1st match although we have

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have only 4 or 5 good players.

We are having beutiful [sic] weather here. The boots that used to hurt me have stre [deleted] e [/deleted] tchet [sic] and are fiting [sic] me beutifully [sic]. We have to gargle with some stuff every morning because the water is so scarce that the [sic] can’t clean the drains properly. [deleted] Theis are [/deleted] Theire [sic] are a lot of sparrows in our school. Yes we have to [sic] letters from Daddy up to now.

Thank you for the post card you sent us. I am ending now with lots of love and kisses from your loving son [deleted] Dad [/deleted] David.

P.S. We had a bit of an [deleted] or [/deleted] earth quake a few days ago our beads [sic] started shaking so we all ran out, then we were called up by a master because it was over.