Letter from David Boldy to his mother

Letter from David Boldy to his mother

One page letter from David Boldy to his mother telling her about day to day events at school, prizes won by his brother and how he had done in tests.

1931-11-15

One page handwritten letter

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St. Paul’s School.
Jalapahar.
DARJEELING.
NOVEMBER 15th 1931

My darling Mummy.

Thank you for your letter. I [deleted] go [/deleted] came 4th in Hindi with 75, & 4th in Maths with 71.

Only 8 more days. We really wanted you to come and meet, but we thought you would have rather stayed so we said we didn’t mind. This will be our last letter to you. Stevie won the moore prize, & won a prize in the hobbies for his colection [sic] of leaves. [deleted] We [/deleted] He will get the prizes on prize giving day. we had the Gym display yesterday and it was a sucess [sic], after it Senior Dorm gave us a school concert and it was very good. Many happy returns of the day. With love

from your loving son

[deleted] Dad [/deleted] David.