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

Department Archive
Collection John Pendlebury Family Papers
Reference No. PEN 1/3/1/2/18
Level Item
Dates 4 Nov 1917
Donor/Creator Pendlebury, Dr John Devitt Stringfellow
Scope and Content Written from Beaudesert Park, Henley-in-Arden. Looking forward to his parents visiting, and asking for a cigarette card album and for [Herbert Pendlebury] to get cigarette cards from men in the hospitals. John also tells Lilian about students going to take an exam for the Navy, that John’s foot had been swollen after a football match, that Mrs Richardson had been caught in an air raid, that they had seen a dromedary [camel] being fed, and asks after Nanny and the birds.