SCOTS Project - www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk Document : 1463 Title : Letter from Frances Gardner 09 - 11/01/90 Author(s): Frances Gardner Copyright holder(s): Dr Sheena Gardner Text [CENSORED: address] Edinburgh [CENSORED: postcode] 11th Jan. My dear Sheena, Many thanks for your letter - written on Christmas Day - posted in Winnipeg on 29th which we received yesterday. I'm glad you enjoyed your Christmas visit to Toronto and hope the New Year celebrations in Winnipeg were as successful. I was pleased to know all the Christmas gifts were well received. - Did a jigsaw ever arrive for Will? Dad has been fighting off a cold this week so we have been tackling the jigsaw you gave him - and enjoying the challenge. As for the soup cups! My soup never tasted so good. I will need to order two more from you for next Christmas so that we can use them when we have visitors! We are all going to 'CATS' tomorrow evening [CENSORED: surname], [CENSORED: surname], K & K and Dad & I. It has been well written up in the Scotsman so should be fun. Dad and I went to the Pantomime last Saturday - just on the spur of the moment and we were fortunate to get two very good seats. A man was returning them just as we were at the Booking Office so it was lucky. (His friend was unable to go because a champagne cork had popped off on Christmas Day and hit his eye. It seems he may have lost his sight in that eye. What a horrid accident.) The Panto was slick and colourful. - I thought Uncle Bill would appreciate the book of the Clyde. As you say, all his photos of his journeys down South in September were of shipyards and Docks! It has stimulated a lot of questions in the letter I received from him this week eg when did we stay at Saddell and row the ferry boat? What was the name of the ship [?]Grandy[/?] took to Canada? etc etc. I shall have to dig deep into my computer brain to find the answers. The sooner I get my memoirs completed the better - to give me time to tackle that, and to prepare for the summer - and to do more things with dad in our twilight years I have intimated my wish to resign from the Cottage Homes Committee - but it seems difficult to find someone willing to commit themselves to the task. However, I must be firm and just go and someone will turn up. - How I shall miss it. - But one can't go on for ever. I understand you and Uncle Bill, and hopefully Sheila will be coming in July. Its good of Sheila to give up her holidays and we understand the whole family cannot make it. Sheila may not wish to stay more than a week but I hope you will manage more. It would be nice if you could fit in a holiday somewhere as well. But I suppose you don't really want to travel any further. Well, must go now. Lots of love, Mum xxx This work is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. The SCOTS Project and the University of Glasgow do not necessarily endorse, support or recommend the views expressed in this document. Information about document and author: Text Text audience Adults (18+): Females: Audience size: 1 Writer knew intended audience: Text details Method of composition: Handwritten Year of composition: 1990 Word count: 482 General description: Letter from mother in Scotland to daughter living in Canada Text publication details Part of a longer series of texts: Name of series: Series of letters from mother to daughter Text setting Private/personal: Text type Correspondence/letters: Author Author details Author id: 1059 Forenames: Frances Surname: Gardner Gender: Female Decade of birth: 1920 Educational attainment: College Age left school: 18 Occupation: Retired Social Worker Place of birth: Bridge of Weir Region of birth: Renfrew Birthplace CSD dialect area: Renfr Country of birth: Scotland Place of residence: Edinburgh Region of residence: Edinburgh Residence CSD dialect area: Edb Country of residence: Scotland Father's occupation: Corn Factor Father's place of birth: Montreal Father's region of birth: Quebec Father's country of birth: Canada Mother's occupation: Housewife Mother's place of birth: Edinburgh Mother's region of birth: Edinburgh Mother's birthplace CSD dialect area: Edb Mother's country of birth: Scotland Languages: Language: English Speak: Yes Read: Yes Write: Yes Understand: Yes Circumstances: Language: Scots Speak: Yes Read: Yes Write: Yes Understand: Yes Circumstances: