Letter from Burma 22
By jeand
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Heinda Mine
Tenasserim
Southern Burma
September 14, 1935
Dear Rosalind,
I know you will be going back to school this next Thursday. I hope all goes well for you. Will you be having a new project to work on this term, I wonder. I learned quite a lot from looking up information for you last year.
I think I wrote to you about our new American missionary friends. Vivian wrote,
that “Yesterday afternoon out at the village, the ladies began their first lesson in sewing. I taught them to do smocking and they seemed to like doing it very much because of term exams, the College girls could not go with me to serve as interpreters. You can imagine what a time I had teaching 15 ladies when only one of them understood English.”
I wonder if you have had any sewing experience, either at school or with your Grandmothers.
Her husband, John added, “Last evening we entertained at home 15 college students.
The short wave radio was the main attraction. We also had a few games, anagrams and finance which they seemed to enjoy. The later the hour, the better the radio programs become and I had to almost tell them to go home.”
I expect you listen to the radio a lot too. What are your favourite programmes?
Nothing much is happening around here at the moment. We had some of our good
friends around for a meal on Tuesday – the Foucars, the Barnettes and the Brisbanes. I hope you will have a good school year. I will write again soon.
Love,
Mummy
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Hi Jean,
Hi Jean,
you know I love the idea of learning smocking. I remember when I was a maid of honour at a friend's wedding back in the 70s, I wore a Laura Ashley dress which was covered in smock and I felt so good in it.
As always Jean enjoyed reading.
Jenny.
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I enjoyed reading this, too.
I enjoyed reading this, too. It shows interest in her daughter, especially at such a distance. Makes it seem so natural.
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Letter From Burma #22
Nice comfortable down to earth correspondence that cretes an air of normality.
Alan
Ringwood
Great Britain
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I expect they could teach
I expect they could teach/show her some of their sewing techinques too. I used to wish they'd teach more sewing when my daughter was in school, they seemed to do largely craft work; but it must be lovely to learn some of the sewing skills and how to make different garments, even if you don't have to do it much. So much cheap clothing around, home sewing isn't done so much is it? Rhiannon
[I think you need a sentence break in –
I taught them to do smocking and they seemed to like doing it very much because of term exams, the College girls could not go with me to serve as interpreters]
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I guess home-grown
I guess home-grown entertainment was the order of the day. No Top of the Pops. Those woman sure had it hard.
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