AU34/26/4/40

Letter to Ena Mary Underwood from Andrew Underwood, Aldershot. Run out of hankies. Thinks he might be coming home.

22 Jan 1953

From: 1953 To: 1953

Talks of mice [in the Church Street kitchen] which he thinks breed in outbuildings. Wonders if there will be a landau in Sir Anthony Wingfield's sale as with Miss Wingfield's ... for the Coronation, it would be rather fun ... Aunt Bobs [sisiter of Frank Randall Underwood] could dress up as Queen Victoria, Rose [sister Rosemary] could be the Kaiser's wife, & Joe Smith [Homelands Farm] could drive....' Is writing 'odds & ends' because he's waiting to have hair cut. Wants to extract some old wall paper 'hand ernbossed with a kind of red fleur-de-lys pattern on a background sprinkled with gilt' which he noticed behind the canvas on the lower staircase wall. Proposes replacing what he takes away with one of 'Barnes' orange boxes' [wooden in those days and very useful for all sorts of jobs needing smaller pieces of wood - or upended for books & storage] - given a thick coat of Mr Parmiter's varnish stain. Thinks his idea 'will make you shudder' .

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Underwood, Andrew Grimmer,
Underwood, Ena Mary,
Underwood, Rosemary Anne,
Wingfield, Anthony,
Smith, Joe,
Parmiter, William Edward

family correspondence, Aldershot, army