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  • Reference
    AU34/21/7/15/4
  • Title
    Letter to Prince Henry Emiko of Nigeria
  • Date free text
    19 January 1957
  • Production date
    From: 1957 To: 1957
  • Scope and Content
    A carbon copy of a handwritten letter to Prince Henry Emiko of Warri in Nigeria from Honora Grimmer: "Dear Prince Henry Emiko, Or is it Prince Henri as you signed your second letter which I received before Christmas? So far I have not been able to find a girl penfriend for you. I could find plenty of boys. My niece who is about the right age has just begun to train as a nurse in a London hospital so she is too busy just now, but perhaps later on I can send you the name and address of a girl who would like a penfriend in Nigeria. I wonder how you spend Christmas in Nigeria? Perhaps you would like to hear how my family spent Christmas in a small country town (which is what Ampthill is) not far from the centre of England. About a week before Christmas we had four foggy days in succession which is unusual for the time of year but at Christmas itself and for a few days afterwards we had snow, which again, does not often happen just at Christmas time. On Christmas Day, my sister and I went to Church at 6am, then we prepared for the rest of the family who were coming from their various homes with their husbands and children to spend the day with us. There were seventeen of us, with ages ranging from the youngest grandson aged 7 years to my mother who is 82. It is the first time for three years that we have all been together on that day. On the Saturday before Christmas a most unusual and interesting event took place. A gentleman who lives in Ampthill, and who until recently was President of the Royal Academy and owns a coach which is 100 years old. It was brought out drawn by four enormous horses (the same ones that draw the Lord Mayor of London's coach) and the passengers and coachmen were dressed in the style of 100 years ago. It was a pity it was one of the foggy days as many people wanted to take photographs, but in spite of the fog I have some quite good pictures. If you are interested in historical things perhaps I might send you a snapshot of it sometime when I use an ordinary envelope and an adhesive stamp. Perhaps if you write to me again you could use an ordinary envelope and an adhesive stamp as I think your stamps are so interesting, but as an air letter they are part of it and cannot be separated. I have not yet found Warri on my maps, perhaps their scale is too small. Which part of Nigeria is it in? Yours sincerely,"
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