Letter from David Boldy to his parents

Letter from David Boldy to his parents

Letter from David Boldy to his parents. General conversation about life at St. Paul's school in Darjeeling, with references to his brother Stephen. The school is in quarantine because two boys have measles. He is playing cricket and his brother hurt himself.

1929-04-28

Three page handwritten letter

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St. Paul’s School
Jalapahar
28th April 1929

My dear Mummy and Daddy.

I hope you are [deleted] g [/deleted] quite well and happy. I am quite well and happy and so is Stevie. We are still in quarritine [sic] and we will be for a long time because two boys have got measeles. [sic] We had a match and it was a draw we had five more runs to beat them and the match [indecipherable word] stoped [sic] because it was getting late and the other team had to go.
I am writing on this paper because the other paper has got no lines. We had a Maths test and havent [sic] got our results yet, I will tell you when we do.

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[deleted] the [/deleted] The days are passing very quickly aren’t they.?. [deleted] Oh [/deleted] Only a few more day [sic] and both of you will be up I hope. We saw a picture about how to make bread and planting of trees and lots of other things at the end we had a comic of three parts all about [deleted] [indecipherable word] [/deleted] Felix how he was out hunting it was the best of all. Very soon and it will be Stevie’s birthday only one month more. [deleted] S [/deleted] Stevie hurt his wrist some time ago wh [inserted] i [/inserted] le he was boxing but it is alright now. He fell on it while we were having house boxing. Dookias never played very well in the mat [inserted] c [/inserted] h he made five better than nothing.

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We are still playing cricket. Soon the house matchs [sic] are coming on. We will get our last Saturday the coming Saturday. I am glad that polly is getting on and learning so well. I hope Pompom and Darjie are getting on well. It is quite a nice day today, I hope you [deleted] can [/deleted] can read my writing because we are just starting to write like this. We have played lots of matchs [sic] haven’t we. Please write to Whiteaway’s to stop sending me caterlogs. [sic] I am ending now. With lots of love and kisses from
David.