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CHARLES HUNTRISS - LETTERS HOME

Special classes and stammering

Thank you very much for the tie and book and letters. I think I shall like the book very much.

I like the Special much more than the school and the work is quite as easy very nearly - we have maps to draw every Saturday night.

I often meet Willie Whitworth on the heath - I met him this afternoon.

Please thank Jess for her starfish and seaweed and letter - I would write to her if I had time. I suppose you will meet this at home so shall direct it there.

The acid drops are all done but the gingerbreads are not.

And now with best love from all to all, I remain your affectionate boy

PS I think that Uncle Henryls dodge has not done me much good in my stammering only a little bit

Willie Whitworth

Charles refers to Willie Whitworth. It s possible that Willie is part of the Whitworth family of Luddendenfoot, which is just outside Halifax).

In the 1860s, the Whitworth family's mills at Luddendenfoot employed a large number of pauper factory apprentices who had been sent by the Poor Law Unions in the south of England. The system of apprenticing poor children caused umbrage in the district, and the locals were in the habit of insulting the apprentices, calling them white slaves and other degrading names.