61 Mintern Street, N1., 7th November 1929
Dear Dorothy,2pm and switch on the light! A glorious day for young ducks.It will do one good thing; it will put finish to the ‘Guys’. I can’t make out the kids today. They start the ‘Guys’ about seven days before the 5th November and by that time the festival has petered out. I should think that one million kiddies invaded the streets as ‘Guys’ for a day or two; and the funny thing is nobody ever gives them anything so far as I have noticed.When I was a kid in the country we made one glorious tar barrel as the centre-piece, and then we put Mr Guy away till next year.
I daresay you keep it up in Harpenden; there old customs die very hard, for little kiddies are most conservative little men.
I had a nice letter from Ivor lately, and of course I had yours also. Ivor mentioned that your Elementary Exam was probably shorthand and I hope you got through.
Is there to be a concert at Queen’s Hall this season? Don’t for get to let me know. I am presuming that your luck will hold good and that you will have a corner, if it be only the most modest.
I think it comes after Xmas doesn’t it?, if a few days before it may be very awkward for me to get to as I have to put in every minute just before Xmas and for some days after. The world goes mad on Jazz just then and we look to make a penny to tide us over when the reaction sets in.
What a day, Dorothy, what a day! I shall go dippy if I stay in, it’s too depressing. So I’ll dress and put in a few hours at Chess in our favourite café just behind the Mansion House.
I enclose 1s/6d.
Love Dad.
Thanks for popping by ! See you again I hope. James Maldoom Herzlich Willkommen auf der blogpage von James. I like playing chess and speak 6 languages. I sell penny sheet music in Chapel Street Market, Islington. One day I would like my collected letters to be edited into a book.
