Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    AU34/21/7/16/5
  • Title
    Letter from Margaret Waddy
  • Date free text
    30 November 1952
  • Production date
    From: 1952 To: 1952
  • Scope and Content
    A handwritten letter from Margaret Waddy (wife of former Rector of St Andrew's, Ampthill) on headed paper from their home in Selly Oak to Honora Grimmer: "My dear Nora, Thank you so very much for the beautiful card you sent me for my birthday, and also for your most interesting letter, and good wishes. Judy says you also remembered her birthday - which was most kind of you. Send on the 5/3d in stamps as our final offering to the Bishop's appeal or whatever it is now called! As Judy is now 15 you can gather my exact age also!! I hoep you had a good visit on Thursdayfor Mr Cooper's Institution - it was dreadful here with both fog and snow - not at all suitable for Bishop's tea drinking about it: but it may have been much better in Bedfordshire. We seem so much further north here. It snowed heavily again yesterday and today looks like Switzerland in the gleaming sunshine. The trees all around us are a great joy and a consolation to me for all the beauty of Ampthill, which I still miss very much. On my birthday we went over to Stratford and saw a very fine production of Othello at the Memorial Theatre. It was our first visit to the famous theatre and I hope that some day you will come and stay with us here and go with us there too. Luckily the snow did not start till we got back that evening. I now feel very settled in our new house and like it tremendously. It is both warm and comfortable and very easy to run. I wish I could think Mrs Cooper was as pleased with the Rectory! But perhaps they have been more clever about the kitchen than we were. Andrew sounds as if she spent every spare minute in Ampthill. He has just written to Pat to tell him he is trying to produce "Everyman"! A very stout effort on his part and I hope he is successful and much supported. I am very concerned to hear that there are cases of polio in Ampthill and do hope the Aldridge boy has not really got it. It's very worrying for you all, especially for you in School. What has Mr Johnson been up to now? We didn't see the Telegraph account! With every good wish and many thanks for your kind remembrance of me. Yours affectionately, Margaret Waddy"
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