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Sent from Culver House [D], Winchester College, and written over 3 days. About playing cricket against the Grenadier guards and some West Indian troops, and in the Toye Cup [at the school]; enclosing a letter from the headmaster about “leave out days”; telling her that he had less “sweats” [chores] now that all the pupils had returned, had been catching butterflies, his boots were too small, he was 16th in “cuse”, there was a trip to the New Forest on Ascension Day, air rifles had been confiscated in the school, and that he would write to Nanny. Also discusses his academic progress (he would not “raise books” [get the class prize] but might “raise a remove” [move up to the next higher form]), what he was studying, and asks for ‘Before Adam’ by Jack Landon [book]. |
