I am turned 76...and...begin to want a holiday
Autograph Letter Signed
1943.
A long four page letter (some 350 words), written on four sides of folded sheet of letter paper, signed H.B. Heelis, to Charles Forrester, a Carlisle cattle farmer. With original envelope. A charming letter in very good condition. One small mark to right hand margin and some uneven fading of the ink. The original postal envelope has lettering and postmark clearly visible with a closed tear to the upper cover.
Heelis asks for another bull stirk to be purchased. "I must save up petrol against sending the lorry", and talks in detail about the cross breeding of cattle. Farming in wartime was "getting wearisome is it not Mr Forrester? I am turned 76 which is not old compared to your mother and mine but I begin to want a holiday". She had met Mr Hudson (minister of agriculture) - "a wash out - a fiasco!" - she had been on Kirkstone Pass to meet him - "thick white mist and the Galloways were two miles off... Mr Hudson said some uncomplimentary things about the wasted grass in the borders; and I said a lot about the uselessness of trying to grow potatoes on a sheep farm - but potatoes he insists on having, he only laughed". She finished by mentioning that her staff have been off with flu, "the men are having flu one after another."
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