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Letter from R P S Waddy

12 May 1970

From: 1970 To: 1970

A handwritten letter from R P S Waddy (former Rector of St Andrew's, Ampthill) from an address in Reading to Honora Grimmer (the letter is written on headed paper from Queen Anne's School, Caversham, Reading where Pat Stacy Waddy is teaching but the school name has been crossed through and replaced with 7 Henley Road): "Dear Nora, The magazine arrived this morning to prod my memory and provide your address. Margaret and I think it's time that you had some stamp money - no, I am not competing with John Hillam by sending a cookery recipe! The photograph on the cover is still nostalgic, though churches are more photogenic with full pews - if less tidy. I am writing between lessons - of which I have 25 periods a week, all enjoyable. The young are charming and stimulate me out of my all-but-sixty sixishness, so that I am oldest in holidays. They always teach me a lot more than I succeed in teaching them, and then amaze me by the amount they remember when it comes to exams. So life is not comparable with Ampthill days: all the jobs I have had have been so different - but there never was a parish like Ampthill - as you will know. Greetings from us both, Yours sincerely, Pat Stacy Waddy"

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Grimmer, Honora Patricia Annie,
Waddy, Richard Patteson Stacy,
Waddy, Margaret

CORRESPONDENCE, teaching, teacher, parish magazines, AMPTHILL, Reading