Letter, Percy R Manson
Maker
Manson, Percy Robert
Production date
1916
Object detail
Brief Description
Letter from Trooper Percy Manson to his parents on 3 May 1916 from Tel El Kabir Egypt.
The letter reads:
Dear Mother & Father,
Just a few lines to let you know I am keeping well in this country and hope you both are keeping the same. I am getting quite use to desert now only don’t think I will be able to get use to the wind storms we get here at times they nearly blind a chap. The food we get here is fairly good although at times we don’t get enough. I have received two letters from Tot and two from Mabel and was very pleased to hear from them, as we don’t get any New Zealand news here. I have met Viv Browne, he has just come out of hospital, he is looking well. Bert Houghton is about fifty miles from here, he is in the brigade which will join in a few weeks as they don’t know how long we will be here. How is the mills getting on up the Main Trunk Line. I suppose they are kept going as usual. Egypt is great place for flies & they nearly eat you; one thing it learns a man to keep his mouth closed or he will get a mouth full of flies. The weather here is very good at present. Only if a chap happened to get a cold it would take a long time to get over it as the day are very hot and the nights are worse than a cold winters night in New Zealand. Well I will have to close this short note to night as I want to get it posted before it get to late. Hoping this will find you both in the best of health as at leaves me.
I am.
Your loving son. Percy.
The letter reads:
Dear Mother & Father,
Just a few lines to let you know I am keeping well in this country and hope you both are keeping the same. I am getting quite use to desert now only don’t think I will be able to get use to the wind storms we get here at times they nearly blind a chap. The food we get here is fairly good although at times we don’t get enough. I have received two letters from Tot and two from Mabel and was very pleased to hear from them, as we don’t get any New Zealand news here. I have met Viv Browne, he has just come out of hospital, he is looking well. Bert Houghton is about fifty miles from here, he is in the brigade which will join in a few weeks as they don’t know how long we will be here. How is the mills getting on up the Main Trunk Line. I suppose they are kept going as usual. Egypt is great place for flies & they nearly eat you; one thing it learns a man to keep his mouth closed or he will get a mouth full of flies. The weather here is very good at present. Only if a chap happened to get a cold it would take a long time to get over it as the day are very hot and the nights are worse than a cold winters night in New Zealand. Well I will have to close this short note to night as I want to get it posted before it get to late. Hoping this will find you both in the best of health as at leaves me.
I am.
Your loving son. Percy.
Collection
Production date
1916
Production place
Production period
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Pencil on paper.
Media/Materials
Measurements
Length x Width: 245 x 193mm
Classification terms
Subject person
Subject period
Subject date
1916
Credit line
from the Viv Millin Collection
Other number(s)
m2002/25/384, 70209
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