Family updates and household matters

Date: unknown
Sender: Ada
Recipient: unknown
Location: Rosemary Cottage, Granville Terrace, Bude Haven, Cornwall
Original scan: 1940-ada-to-family-updates.pdf




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Summary

Ada writes from Cornwall to update the family on household repairs, the preparation of a shelter, and recent visitors. She mentions windows being fixed, shelving arranged for the shelter, and comforts for Gillian. An airman called regarding a promised item, and Ada apologizes for the unfinished floor.

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Transcription

Rosemary Cottage,
Granville Terrace,
Bude Haven,
Cornwall.

My own Darling One

These two things came this a.m. I opened & see if it was anything you'd like me to phone about. Have noted Mrs. Dent's new Tel. no.

Nurse's windows have been done - and now at this moment the blind "hood" is being done. I've let them use my new ladder which they say is a beauty. I'm writing in haste to post this on the way to fetch Gillian.

All well here. I hear planes have been over but do not know whether this is true. Joan & Mrs. Edmunds told me. Anyway we have heard no warning and have not been disturbed.

Have cleared one shelf of the kitchen in order to make it nice for our "shelter." Half filled it with toys & books - other half - wool, iodine bandages & gauze. Gillian is quite thrilled with the idea of making a "shelter" and a little tent under kitchen table. Of course she has no idea of any danger attached but will go there when her Dummiesdrops on the new Leyden tells her & if "Penna" is afraid of the noise she is going to help comfort her like she did her "Wads" in bombed shop.

My little nearly well.

Today an airman called for the "gunpowder" he said you had promised to give & them. I said I was sure it was a mistake. He seemed quite sure that he was to call of it from the Spear of Granville Terrace - maybe for Mr. Petnir - I never thought of that -

So many interruptions hence cannot will post now on the late of Gillian.

All my love. Hope all is well with you - Your Ada.

So sorry your floor is not done hope you can find some sort of peaceful habitation -

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People mentioned

- Ada
- Gillian
- Joan
- Mrs. Edmunds
- Mr. Petnir
- Penna
- Wads

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Topics

- family updates
- household chores
- shelter preparation
- telephone number
- noise comfort
- airman visitor

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Uncertain words / phrases

- Dent's
- Dummiesdrops
- Leyden
- Penna
- Wads
- the Spear

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Archivist notes

- Letter appears to be written during wartime, referencing air raids and shelters.
- Mentions of 'gunpowder' and telephone updates suggest household logistics.
- Three pages: last is faint notes or calculations possibly unrelated to main letter.
- Sender clearly Ada, recipient unnamed family member.
- Location well specified in Cornwall.

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