BMS/CWK/95/22a/3

Envelope and letter from Bessie Kaye to her parents. Sent from Newnham College, Cambridge

27 Jan 1918

From: 1918 To: 1918

Thanks for items that have arrived, including fire lighters, biscuits and oatcake. Will send back the tins. Lectures increased to 17, and three afternoons a week are taken up. Tennis begins tomorrow. Going for coaching for division 1 of the Boat Club, which takes up one afternoon a week. Dymphna and writer had preliminary coaching and had to sit on footstools and pretend they were rowing. Went to a meeting of the Shakespeare Society on Tuesday evening. On Friday there is a meeting of the freshers (of old) debating society, and tomorrow a meeting of the College debating societies. Yesterday was the Fire Brigade party, an annual affair; the captain and 2 lieutenants entertained the whole brigade to cocoa, biscuits etc., and afterwards had games and competitions between the companies. There was also a rag hockey match in the afternoon when everyone played in fancy dress. Kept busy returning cocoas to people who asked them last term. Writer enjoys having the people she likes, but some of the others are rather boring. Describes plants and flowers in room.

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family correspondence, World War One, Cambridge University, Cambridge Newnham College, tennis, rowing, hockey, fire brigades