Private Papers of H H Kassman – Letter from Kassman to Mother, June 20, 1941
Description
Letter from Gunner H. Henry Kassman to his mother, from within a file of his correspondence between 1941-1943 compiled by his daughter in 2010. File’s contents are primarily typed letters and other correspondence, occasionally reproduced (often in addition to the typed version), and also include photographs, diary entries from Kenneth Rankin’s book Top-Hats in Tobruk, some other written materials, and some explanatory material. For further information, please see the folder summary. For all posts about this collection, please click on the “H. Henry Kassman” tag in this post.
Page 2: Letter to Kassman’s mother. Mail (letter, cards, and cable) have arrived from the mother. The cable seems to have contained some indication that the mother is getting remarried in the signature, but apparently does not mention the man’s name; in Kassman’s estimation, this latter fact is because they (he, his brother Alec, and the fiancé) are not already acquainted. Kassman’s response: “Need I say how very happy I am and that I wish you every happiness.” He is looking forward to a longer description in a future letter. The wedding seems to be going to be held on the 29th in London; Kassman regrets not being able to be there, and says “this makes the second one [wedding, presumably] I have missed!”
[Background: Rebecca Kassman was widowed in 1933.]
Kassman has sent three Airgraph letters, but they have not been recently given the [Airgraph] forms for almost a month.
Some discussion of theatre-going in the UK (presumably London), together with a man named Chester (possibly a relative), who seems to have seven days’ leave approximately every five days, based on the mother’s old letters to Kassman. Kassman and Alec have had no leave since last August, and do not expect this to change in the near future.
Cables are now “restricted to phrases compiled by the imaginative brains of the War Office”, which Kassman describes as primarily being requests for money. Kassman felt they were inadequate, and thus opted for Air Mail.
Censor L [?] Whitehead.
3/4 page typed. Dated June 20, 1941.