John Haworth Drewry Letters
Letters from John Haworth Drewry to his parents. Learn more.
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for service. He intends to study medicine. Then we have Kathleen, just seventeen, who is at school preparing to try the London University Matriculation in July. She is going in for medicine also. Another clever one is Bobby, aged fifteen. He is at school at Harrogate and is something of a genius at things electrical. They are going to make an electrical engineer and out of him. Finally we have "the baby" Dorothy, aged about six, who is very a very bright kiddie and who talks seventeen to the dozen. You can see they are a clever family. Tommy is justly proud of his cousins, but is especially fond of Kathleen who is rather good-looking. Tommy has a great eye for a good-looking girl! The others don't possess any special attributes of beauty but are tremendously likeable.
BC Archives 93-6554, Box 4, DREWRY FAMILY, Selected correspondence, 1917 – 1919.