Letters to “Mother” [Lilian] Pendlebury and “Daddy” [Herbert Pendlebury] from “your loving son John”, with an envelope

Department Archive
Collection John Pendlebury Family Papers
Reference No. PEN 1/3/1/1/6
Level Item
Dates 24 Oct 1915
Donor/Creator Pendlebury, Dr John Devitt Stringfellow
Scope and Content Written from St George’s School, Broadstairs, Kent . Comprises two separate letters written on the same piece of paper. John thanks Lilian for plant bulbs, tells her that he is learning how to signal Morse code with an electric torch that he had bought, asks her to send wool and needles to he can knit a scarf, tells her about playing football, that they had not been to the coastline for a long time as it was too cold, that he often sees aeroplanes and is recruiting people to the Navy League. John tells Herbert about playing football and that he finds Latin very easy.