John Haworth Drewry Letters
Letters from John Haworth Drewry to his parents. Learn more.
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P.S. My old trunk is about all in & I need a new one. Started out to buy one yesterday afternoon, but! Nothing worth having for less than £5/10/0 and nothing at all under £3/10/0! Who said things are cheap in England?
STRAND PALACE HOTEL, STRAND, LONDON, W.C. 2.
TELEGRAMS: "LUXURY, RAND, LONDON." CODE: WESTERN UNION.
THE STRAND HOTEL LIMITED, PROPRIETORS OF STRAND PALACE HOTEL, REGENT PALACE HOTEL.
May 9, 1919.
Dearest Mother:–
At last I've got my leave as you will see. I came up here yesterday and went down to Winchester this morning on the 9.35 from Waterloo. It didn't take me long to tell them what I wanted, for I've been wanting it so long now that there was no holding me. Not that I get at all heated, but just stated cold facts as to how long I had been waiting and how hundreds who hadn't
BC Archives, 93-6553 Box 4 / DREWRY FAMILY / Selected Correspondence, 1917–1919.