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Dear Granny

Tuesday, September 13, 2016 12:27

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This is an old letter I picked up in a junk shop. It is creased and fragile but as you may be able to see, it was written by a schoolboy to his granny and is dated 9^th May 1913.

Dear Granny,

Thanks very much for the stamp album. I will bring it up with me next time I come. We broke up from school yesterday (May 8^th). I’m in the big boys now, our teacher calls us lads. His name is Mr Frances.

Yours

Lovingly

Roogy

Not sure if the name is Roogy, but a strange nickname if it is. Or could it be the family name, or was his name Roger?

There is also a pencil sketch which appears to show boxer Jack Johnson punching a suffragette and at the same time having his backside kicked by a small person who may be Roogy and who also appears to be sticking his tongue out. Maybe granny supported the suffragettes and therefore Roogy did too, but where Jack Johnson comes into it I don’t know.

Presumably the drawing is contemporary with the letter because Johnson was world heavyweight champion from 1908 until 1915, but for some reason he seems to be depicted as a white chap with a big black moustache. Possibly it was a private nickname for somebody else entirely. Or perhaps there was another Jack Johnson who hated the suffragettes and this is a private joke between grandmother and grandson.

How the letter became detached from Roogy’s family I don’t know. Perhaps it lay undiscovered for decades in a piece of furniture which was subsequently sold and so the family thread was snapped.

Source: http://akhaart.blogspot.com/2016/09/dear-granny.html

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