Letter to “Daddy” [Herbert] Pendlebury from “John”

Department Archive
Collection John Pendlebury Family Papers
Reference No. PEN 1/3/1/1/11
Level Item
Dates 12 Dec 1915
Donor/Creator Pendlebury, Dr John Devitt Stringfellow
Scope and Content Written from St George’s School, Broadstairs, Kent . Wishing his father [a happy birthday], apologising for not having written sooner but he had been helping to make an aeroplane out of a knitting frame. Also telling Herbert that he had made a boy called Lawrence angry at lunch; that someone gives John a “hack” every time they play football; and that they see warships (monitors and destroyers) with a drawing of a destroyer.