Letter to “Mother” [Lilian Pendlebury] from John [Pendlebury], with an envelope

Department Archive
Collection John Pendlebury Family Papers
Reference No. PEN 1/3/1/1/34
Level Item
Dates 12 Nov 1916
Donor/Creator Pendlebury, Dr John Devitt Stringfellow
Scope and Content Written from St George’s School, Broadstairs, Kent. Telling Lilian that he was looking forward to her visit [with Herbert Pendlebury]; about a German Smack [Q-ship] being captured near Broadstairs and taken to Ramsgate Harbour, an aeroplane crash-landing into the sea, and field guns being placed nearby; about Jumbo getting a telescope from his mother and John receiving foreign stamps. John also asks her to tell [Herbert Pendlebury] “that the mathematics are awful” and to bring some stamps as he needed them for stamp approval sheets.