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 school activities and sports.

1931-08-16

Two page handwritten letter

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St.Pauls School.
Jalapahar.
16/8/31/.

My darling Mummy.
Thank you for your letter. Mrs Cox says she likes your hand writing, and that she has posted you a letter. We are having good weather again. We are going home on the 23.rd., NOV: there are only 99 days left. The sports are on the 4th. of Oct:

The puga holidays are from the 10. [underlined] Th. [/underlined] to the 15. [underlined] Th [/underlined] of Oct: We [deleted] are [/deleted] had a half holiday on Friday because one of our masters has been engaged to Miss Beaver of Al [inserted] I [/inserted] ce villa. You will be very glad to hear I got 80 for Hindi. I am really trying now. We had pictures yesterday Miss Sheluctons Brother showed the [sic] to us. We won the match against Victoria B. team the score being 2-1. and are in the semi finals of the John shield now, they shot the first goal and when there were only two minutes left we got agoal [sic], [deleted] I [/deleted] and had extra time and got

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another goal. Mrs Gregory’s adress [sic] is: -

Mrs J. L. Gregory
Dale Cottage.
Dargeeling.

I am ending now, with lots of love and.
kisses from your
loving son
[underlined] David [/underlined]