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John Haworth Drewry Letters

Letters from John Haworth Drewry to his parents. Learn more.

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BC Archives MS-3140

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They seemed to allow my presence to make absolutely no difference to them, but at the same time I could see that nothing was too good for Tommy or myself.

Pontefract is a town of some ten thousand people and is the centre of the licorice industry of England. Dr. Blomfield is the only doctor in the neighborhood and has a tremendous practice. His wife is a very capable and energetic woman and looks after the entire business end of his practice and of the household. They seem very comfortably off, have a lovely home with a great English garden, two motor cars and keep two maids. There are five children, two boys and three girls. The oldest, Muriel, is a fine wholesome, natural girl of nineteen, the next, Ted, has just turned eighteen and is expecting to be called up

BC Archives, 93-6553, Box 4, DREWRY FAMILY, Selected correspondence, 1917 – 1919.

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