Z153/62/5

Letter from Bessie Godber to her sister Mary Jane Pratt of Bell Close House, Totternhoe. Willington, Friday

undated [July 1917]

From: 1917 To: 1917

Beautiful summer to the end of July & rain was needed but getting several rations at once. Would be sad to see the old home pass out of the family, cannot think Dad or Mother would feel happy anywhere else. If don’t have farm ‘Ernest & Perc – or at any rate Ernest - will simply drift…It’s the greatest pity that either of them ever went to London, they’d better by half have been put to some trade, if farming was out of the question at that time.’ Death of boy in fire at Loxley Farm, Long Marston [13 July 1917] remembers Molly dancing in the barn one Whitsuntide. All kiddies except George have blister things again ‘they never had anything like them till this last 2 years & I do want to get to the bottom of it, I think it must be some poison either in the food we are getting or germs in the air caused by the war’. Thinks boys brought them home from school. ‘George is leaving this term & is going to the Modern, also Joyce has left & will I expect go to the High School. [further page missing]

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Godber, Bessie Maud,
Pratt, Mary Jane,
Chapman, Ernest,
Chapman, Percy,
Godber, George,
Godber, Joyce

family correspondence, WILLINGTON, rain, weather, FIRE, illness, schools, World War One, Puttenham