Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    AU34/21/7/16/4
  • Title
    Letter from R P S Waddy
  • Date free text
    12 November 1952
  • Production date
    From: 1952 To: 1952
  • Scope and Content
    A handwritten letter from R P S Waddy (former Rector of St Andrew's, Ampthill) on headed paper from their new home in Selly Oak to Honora Grimmer. Rev. Waddy has become chaplain at the College of the Ascension: "My dear Nora, May I send you the enclosed "little book" with my love? It has just come out, and is a very small baby, but I had fun writing it, and far more from expurgating what I had written so that the Mothers' Union should not be shocked! the result is not quite the H.C.F. but it is rather less H. and more C. than when I wrote it. It's a real November morning here. Wednesday is my day off, when I am not allowed to poke my nose into College, and it is a treat - no lectures and no queue. For really it is a full life; quite different from a parish, which was full enough, in that people don't have to be wooed! They really do respond, and want to learn. My chief job is to teach them how to say their prayers and stand on their own spiritual feet in the tough and lonely jobs they'll have to do overseas, and I spend a lot of time just listening and talking. We're a very happy family of about 40, and some day I hope you will find yourself near enough to come and see the College, with its lovely chapel and garden. This house is more or less 'finished' now, after an unconscionable time with British workmen came in and out - and then the boiler burst! It's a good house, and not too strenuous for Margaret, though she still has continued pain in her back. The magazine gives me news of the parish still, and Andrew writes of all his doings. I hope that the Institution will be the beginning of a new and happy chapter for the parish - we did like the Coopers so much that we are delighted that they are to be at Ampthill. I hope that Maulden finds the right man to succeed Mr Millington too; it will be a very changed Deanery in the last 6 years. Thank you again, Nora, for all that you do and all that you are. Yours sincerely, Pat Stacy Waddy"
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