Z153/62/29

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

undated [Nov 1922]

From: 1922 To: 1922

‘Its all Election everywhere & we are very much in it having 4 candidates which means a separate waste paper basket is required to put all their “literature” in. Ike is taking no part this time, he’s sort of between the devil & the deep sea – both Wells & Kellaway are trying to draw him into their meshes for car lending etc so he steers clear of both, and after refusing to lend it to either he had a letter from each yesterday telling him where to report as he had “kindly promised use of it”. Its most amusing the way Lloyd George & Birkenhead are patting each other & their own backs, tho I must say I do think that L G is a wonderful man & that nobody else could have done what he did during the war – no doubt I shall be cut off with the proverbial shilling for saying so – as I do not think they admire him at all at Puttenham! Still I think perhaps we do want a little “tranquillity” now…’ Admires Molly’s drawing room. Good run home ‘not at all cold as we were closed in, it makes a world of difference’. Peacock’s auctioneers have poultry sales. Joyce has turned her hair up to see how it feels. ‘Her great ambition I believe is to be head of the school before she leaves, she is in 5A now & will be in the 6th next year all being well – also she wants to be Editor of the Aquila – their school magazine she seems to have a bent that way’ getting a good deal like Edith used to be, painfully shy. Maid wants a daily place sorry to lose her best all round one has had for a long time.

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Godber, Bessie Maud,
Pratt, Mary Jane,
Godber, Isaac,
Kellaway, F.G.,
Wells, Richard,
Lloyd George, David,
Smith, Frederick Edwin, !st Earl of Birkenhead,
Godber, Joyce,
Godber, Frank

family correspondence, WILLINGTON, elections, servants, cars, POLITICS, poultry, W & H Peacock