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

Department Archive
Collection John Pendlebury Family Papers
Reference No. PEN 1/3/1/3/25
Level Item
Dates 13 Oct 1918
Donor/Creator Pendlebury, Dr John Devitt Stringfellow
Scope and Content Sent from Culver House [D], Winchester College. About the daily routine, his division, teachers and classes at the school; thanking her and Herbert for a brush case, book and gloves for playing fives; telling her that [his chores] were half waking and uniform cad [assistant] for one of the new prefects, and about having tea with Whitaker after she had left [him at the school]. John also asks for a piece of “mugging” [material] with fringe for his desk and some furniture polish, and for her and Herbert to tell him what they wanted as presents. He mentions that Aunt Violet had written to him and that his letter to Nanny must be lost in the post.