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Sent from Winchester College. Saying he’d arrived safely back from visiting home and had enjoyed the visit, telling her his place in Ellis Pot [soccer team], that they were revising history rather than having a set task, and his marks [for a test] on prose. John also asks whether Nanny [Alice Comber] would go home or her mother would visit, and says that he is sorry for the death of Mrs Barnes.
Sent from Winchester College. About playing sports at the school, that they had a task on the best form of government, and that he was looking forward to [the holidays], going to Cambridge to see Mrs Comber [Alice, his nanny] and going to Lords [cricket ground]. Also telling Lilian that he was going on a field trip to Salisbury plain.
Sent from Winchester College. Telling her that he would be running in a Steeplechase race, that the field trip [to Salisbury plain] was a success and he saw Tommy [?] there, about his task on the best form of government and that they had a lecture on nationalisation. John also asks Lilian to thank [Herbert Pendlebury] for notes on [the best form of government task], says he is glad that it was arranged [to go to Lord’s cricket ground in the holidays], that he is writing to Dr Menzies and that the Smiths had asked him out to tea.
Sent from [Winchester College]. Thanking her for money, telling her he was 37th in the Steeplechase [running race] and would enter the senior and junior high jump competition and middle hurdles in athletics [at the school].
Sent from Winchester College. About athletics competitions, asking her to confirm his grandfather’s address, and payments for the bicycle shop and to give the college servants.
Sent from [Winchester College]. Thanking her for money and explaining why they were giving money [to the college servants], reporting on his progress [in athletics] and results for an essay, and saying he would write to his grandfather.
Sent from [Winchester College]. Reporting on his performance in the hurdles and high jump in athletics.
Sent from Culver House [D], Winchester College. Reporting on the result of the Taylor Pot [inter-house award, based on aggregate athletics marks] and examinations; telling her he had photographs of himself doing the high jump and running in the Steeplechase race, his schedule for the next day (as he was travelling home the day after) including “Dick Shield” [rifle shooting competition], and that he had written to his grandfather. John also mentions that his cricket boots had arrived and that there was a 10-day camping trip at the end of next half [the next term].
Sent from Winchester College. The questionnaire (titled “catechism” and written by Lilian or Herbert) contains questions about John’s activities and place in the College, and has been answered by John. The letter informs Lilian about the new prefects at the school, that the whole school were going to see [a play] at the Guild Hall [Winchester], and that he had been inoculated again. John also asks Lilian to ask [Herbert Pendlebury] to get him the correct version of the gospel according to St Luke in Greek, says he is sorry about Dicky [the dog?] and sends his love to Nanny.
Sent from [Winchester College]. Informing her of his arrival time and saying that no telegrams would go after 10am because it was a bank holiday.
Sent from D House [Culver], Winchester College. Thanking her for a postal order and telling her about a lecture on ants, tea with Canon Smith and a huge thunderstorm which resulted in a leak in the roof. John also asks for a box to keep butterflies in [that he had caught].
Sent from Culver House [D], Winchester College. Sending “Short Roll” [register of students at the College], asking for ‘The Book of Good Hunting’ by Henry Newbolt and for her to get him a song (he didn’t mind which as long as it was short, cheerful and not too high).
Sent from Culver House [D], Winchester College. Reporting on (and sending papers from) his assessments, his weekly task, academic progress, and a Chawker Pot [soccer tournament] game between Culver House and Chawkers House. Asking Herbert who Lady Dalton was because she had asked Mr Richardson to invite John to lunch and tea; telling him about a play about Agamemnon at the school put on by “The Bince” [Mr Robinson], that they had 2 lectures by Sir Edward Grigg on the Dominions, about his preparations for athletics, and that they were going to the Cathedral as it was “Cathers Sunday”.
Sent from D House [Culver], Winchester College. Asking for his net and a killing bottle [for butterflies] as he had joined the Natural History Society, and telling her that Marlborough [College] had won a match [football or cricket].
Sent from D House [Culver], Winchester College. Thanking Lilian for handkerchiefs and telling her about life at the school including a boat race, a “crockets” [cricket] match and that he had been to Gunner’s Hole [to swim]. Also telling her that he was going to have tea with Canon Vaughan and visit the Sings.
Sent from Winchester College. Reporting his place in the College (division, soccer team, dormitory, seat in Chapel, being Dicker’s clothes cad [assistant, part of his “sweats]) and the books that they would be studying. John also says that the eider-down [bed cover] arrived and he had paid the subscription to the school, and asks for Hutchinson’s magazine.
Sent from Winchester College. The letter from the College is about the summer holidays and an outbreak of fever in the school. John writes that the College lost a boat race to Westminster [College], that he had “put up the mugging” [trim decorating his toye in the mugging hall], had been chasing butterflies and liked a frame she gave him for a photograph of his grandfather. Also includes an invented short dialogue about the devil being everywhere.
Sent from D House [Culver], Winchester College. Asking for Lilian to change a sovereign coin into shillings and pence so he could have money for a day when they were allowed out of the school, and telling her he had played cricket and gone up 10 places in “cuse”, and that there was an exam the next day.
Sent from “E.E.S., T.A.” [Egyptian Exploration Society excavation, Amarna].
Sent from “Egypt Exploration Society’s Camp, Tell el Amarna, Near Deir Mawas, Upper Egypt” [Amarna].
Sent from “Egypt Exploration Society’s Camp, Tell el Amarna, Near Deir Mawas, Upper Egypt” [Amarna].
Sent from “Egypt Exploration Society’s Camp, Tell el Amarna, Near Deir Mawas, Upper Egypt” [Amarna].
Sent from 2 Sh. Seray el Gezira [Cairo, Egypt].
Sent from 31 Barrow Road, Cambridge.
Sent from Oxford and Cambridge University Club, London.
Sent from Tzermiadha [Tzermiado], Crete.