John Haworth Drewry Letters
Letters from John Haworth Drewry to his parents. Learn more.
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in which we stayed is a plate stating that it is the house in which Calvin, the Reformer was born in I think, 1604. The cathedral there is a wonderful building though not by any means as large as the cathedral of Amiens. Some of the stained glass windows are simply wonderful in their design and blending of colours. The great stone arches of true Gothic type look so slender and frail in their great height that the whole building strikes me at first glance as some delicately constructed ornament of the giants.
By jove there is the tea-gong and after tea I am going up to the sheds to help my engine man give my engine a rough looking over and readjusting so I will leave this till after dinner.
After dinner - . At dinner we received orders to pack up and be ready to move at two hours' notice as the Huns are
BC Archives, 93-6553 Box 4 DREWRY FAMILY Selected Correspondence, 1917 – 1919.