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CHARLES HUNTRISS - LETTERS HOME

Another sister for Charles, greeted with all the enthusiasm a 12 year old boy can muster

Thank you for your very nice letter. I am glad that you have got downstairs again and I am very glad there is another baby.

Excuse beginning in this way on this side of the paper I am half asleep and everybody is shaking and bumping against me so it is rather hard to write.

It has been very wet this morning but this afternoon it cleared up a bit.

This sheet of paper has had some ink spilled on it and so that makes it a little more smudgey.

It only wants(?) about twelve days to the Michaelmas holidays now - I think we shall all get the merit holiday.

Please excuse such a short letter as I want to try and write to Jess and can't find anything to put. I am your very affectionate son

PS Please tell Bill to write to me soon.

Effie Huntriss was born on August 28th,1866, and was the last of the children of William and Ellen.