Letter and Envelope, Percy R Manson
Maker
Manson, Percy Robert
Production date
1918
Object detail
Brief Description
Letter and envelope from Percy R Manson.
a) Letter from Percy R Manson to his mother. Written while on active service in Palestine and dated 2 February 1918. The letter reads:
Dear Mother,
I now take up my pencil take the opportunity of writing to you a few lines in answer to your most ever welcome letter which came to hand yesterday. I was pleased to see that you have all been enjoying fairly good health. The weather has been very changeable, one week we have it fine & the next just the opposite, when it rains here it does rain, it comes down in bucketfuls. I have not had a letter from Walter since he arrived in England but I am expecting one any day as I wrote to him & it does not take very long for a letter to go to England from here. I have a cousin down at the training camp from the South Island. I have never met him yet. I think he came over in the thirty first reinforcements so suppose he will be one of the balloted men. How is brother Clive getting on. I believe he has a girl now. The girls in NZ will have to marry the old men and cripples now as I am afraid the war won’t be coming to an end for a long time yet. I was sorry to hear of Jim White death as he was not a bad sort. Kelly was very foolish to marry him in the first place as he has as long as I have known him had bad health. I have not had any word from Vin for a long time but I suppose he is still in the army. In his last letter about two months ago he was going on leave to England so I suppose by now he has had his leave. Well I think I will have to close now as news is very scarce here at present. Hoping these few lines will find you in the best of health as it leaves me at present.
I am Your loving son
P Robt Manson
b) Military issue envelope for use on Active Service. Addressed to Mrs S Manson.
a) Letter from Percy R Manson to his mother. Written while on active service in Palestine and dated 2 February 1918. The letter reads:
Dear Mother,
I now take up my pencil take the opportunity of writing to you a few lines in answer to your most ever welcome letter which came to hand yesterday. I was pleased to see that you have all been enjoying fairly good health. The weather has been very changeable, one week we have it fine & the next just the opposite, when it rains here it does rain, it comes down in bucketfuls. I have not had a letter from Walter since he arrived in England but I am expecting one any day as I wrote to him & it does not take very long for a letter to go to England from here. I have a cousin down at the training camp from the South Island. I have never met him yet. I think he came over in the thirty first reinforcements so suppose he will be one of the balloted men. How is brother Clive getting on. I believe he has a girl now. The girls in NZ will have to marry the old men and cripples now as I am afraid the war won’t be coming to an end for a long time yet. I was sorry to hear of Jim White death as he was not a bad sort. Kelly was very foolish to marry him in the first place as he has as long as I have known him had bad health. I have not had any word from Vin for a long time but I suppose he is still in the army. In his last letter about two months ago he was going on leave to England so I suppose by now he has had his leave. Well I think I will have to close now as news is very scarce here at present. Hoping these few lines will find you in the best of health as it leaves me at present.
I am Your loving son
P Robt Manson
b) Military issue envelope for use on Active Service. Addressed to Mrs S Manson.
Collection
Production date
1918
Production place
Production period
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Letter written on folded sheets of paper, handwritten in pencil on lined paper. Sheets still attached at the top. Envelope printed in green ink on white paper with handwriting in blue and black ink. Black ink stamps.
Media/Materials
Measurements
Height x Width: 256 x 203mm
Height x Width: 108 x 145mm
Height x Width: 108 x 145mm
Signature/Inscription
Tpr P R Manson, Inscription, Handwritten
Mounted Brigade Field Post Office / 4 Feb, Stamp, Stamped
Mrs S Manson at Napier Terrace, Napier, Inscription, Handwritten
Mounted Brigade Field Post Office / 4 Feb, Stamp, Stamped
Mrs S Manson at Napier Terrace, Napier, Inscription, Handwritten
Classification terms
Subject person
Subject period
Subject date
02 Feb 1918
Credit line
from the Viv Millin Collection
Other number(s)
m2002/25/393, 70259
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