OR2302/1a

Letter (two sheets) and franked and crested envelope.from Edward Shuckborough Rouse-Boughton, The Dower House, Leintwardine to Frederica. either X-ray or South American tea making him feel better

5 February 1926.

From: 1926 To: 1926

enjoying four valve wireless better than crystal sets ‘which all the village people are putting in’ enjoys being able to turn off a bishop’s sermon he does not like. felt need for ancestral portraits; bought pictures at low prices, invented wicked deeds they did. reference real Boughtons. refers to Public Records Office’s Ancient Deeds ‘the Boughtons were always giving bits of land to Churches and Monasteries, in atonement for murders and things they had committed: ‘such a hard lot’ - did not tell Aunt Cathy because it might upset her. ‘One had fifteen lines of crimes which were wiped out, for good service against the French’.

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Rouse-Boughton, Edward Shuckborough,
Orlebar, Frederica St.John,
Boughton

family correspondence, wireless, general crime