Letter from “your loving Husband” to “My own darling” [John Pendlebury to Hilda Pendlebury]

Department Archive
Collection John Pendlebury Family Papers
Reference No. PEN 1/2/1/3/1
Level Item
Dates Sunday, January 21, 1940
Donor/Creator Pendlebury, Dr John Devitt Stringfellow
Scope and Content Describing life in the training unit and the other cadets and officers training with John (particularly those sharing a room); telling Hilda that they were to start their training the next day and that the course was around 3 months with breaks at weekends and Easter; mentioning a possible course in Intelligence in Cambridge and that after that he had been promised an “action job”; asking Hilda to send him items forgotten, order trousers, meet him in London at the weekend and book a hotel and a theatre show, and not to “forget your marriage lines”.