Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    AU34/21/7/16/27
  • Title
    Letter from R P S Waddy
  • Date free text
    13 April 1984
  • Production date
    From: 1984 To: 1984
  • Scope and Content
    A typewritten letter from R P S Waddy (former Rector of St Andrew's, Ampthill) to Honora Grimmer, on headed paper from Maiden Newton, Dorchester, Dorset: "Dear Nora, We are just back from staying with Christopher in Kent, with two lovely Golden Wedding parties; for our own family (and four grandchildren) and for what George VI called The Firm - cousins and all that. We are such a scattered lot that it could not be a full turn-out: Sydney and California are too far away, and when it comes to the aged, even England is a long way round. But we can travel easily to Waterloo and go straight on to Kent - and we have survived it all. We spread all our golden cards around the house; and it was lovely of you to collect so many names at the school party; about half of them rang a bell, some rather faintly. (If you taught them all to write, I congratulate you on their decipherability!) We did enjoy being spoilt. And I am most impressed with our Waddy grandchildren, who taught me to play round games and were much cleverer than I was. Havana we know so much better and she is sheer delight, to look at and listen to. Now we can settle down for Holy Week and for Easter; at least for as much as we are nowadays provided with, which is not a great deal on our home pitch. But I have a happy Palm Sunday to look forward to, with a palm procession round a village green; an hour on Good Friday, and then an Easter celebration - it is greedy to want more! But the truth is I have always enjoyed going to church more than anything else; and we were abnormally lucky to have seven extra years with the nuns at Ditchingham, worship at its loveliest. I do hope that we really are allowed to cast down our golden crowns before the glassy sea, so to speak, in heaven! I am enclosing a rough copy of my Golden Words for your amusement, and anyone else's; I could not resist a congregation like that. We heard from Gillets and Saunderses; and I hope that the right Rector is on his way from the Vice Chancellor - I was sorry that William Lark did not want to move, but he is really happy among the students of Reading University, I think. We shall miss Nina his mother, who was a friend all this time. All good wishes for a happy Easter. Yours affectionately, Pat Stacy Waddy
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