4th
Oct 2011
Hi
GeeGee
Just time to drop you a quick letter
before I head off to Uni. Mom and Dad are insisting on coming along to halls
even though I could have got all my stuff in the Corsa. But then as they are
straight back on the plane to Australia
Mom
has even made me loads of frozen meals ‘just in case.’
Speak soon
Oodles of love
Becca xx
18th of October Nineteen Hundred
Dearest
Rebecca,
How are you? Are your mother and
father well? I am feeling the damp a little on my chest and Great Grandpapa has
purchased an elixir from the apothecary along with some remedy mix that I shall
have in a vapour bath this evening after supper.
I
do think it rather unusual that as a young lady, you will not be having a
debutante ball as we did at your age. How will your parents find a suitable
young man for you to marry?
Are you sure that you are fitting
for the University life? I know your dear brother has done well but darling,
you are a lady and it may be frowned upon if you are a little, well, how shall
we say, flighty.
With dearest love
Great Grandma Rebecca Shields
24th
Oct, 2011
Gee
Gee!
You do make me laugh! Times have
moved on and I’ve found a great guy here at university, his name is Tim and we
are going bowling tonight and then for a curry with the guys. Next year we will
probably house share with Melissa and her boyfriend James.
Campus life is great. There is plenty to do so
I don’t feel too home sick. Lots of bands playing and parties as well as cheap
cider in the student bar, but please don’t tell Dad as he’ll go mental! He’ll
hide his whiskey when I’m home for half term, lol.
Love and hugs
Becca
Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
1st of November Nineteen Hundred
Dearest
Rebecca,
My dear child,
With much thought for your welfare
and safety and in the absence of your father, I feel that you ought to leave
this University at once. It is not becoming of a young lady of society to be
sharing japes with young men unchaperoned, one never knows what scandal will
ensue. It is forbidden for you to even think of sharing a house with such
flighty young ladies who are obviously leading you astray and forcing you to
drink alcohol, which is what I assume this ‘cider’ is. You have brought on a
fit of the vapours, from which I am now recovering. You must be strong my child
and return home to your parents forthwith.
With dearest love
Great Grandma Rebecca Shields
18th
Nov 2011
Dear
Mom,
Greetings
from across the pond. I hope you are well? Becca has called me in tears and as
you refused to own the ‘new fangled contraption’ called a telephone, I have had
to resort to putting pen to paper.
Please do not encourage Becca to
leave University. She has worked hard to get her place there and does seem to
be enjoying it. Yes I know she has a boyfriend and that she drinks alcohol but
she is sensible so will be fine.
Your loving son
David
Alison
Edwards November 2011
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