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bird-books are worth £10 for the set, and will soon be very valuable. 11 I have decided that I would prefer a lightweight sports bycicle than an ordinary bycicle with a 3 speed gear. The trunks have come up and the play is going on quite well now. Boss has put a lot of his imagination in it. I think that if acted propaly it will be very nice. 12 I came second in the term order. I didn’t want to be first because it is to much of a fag. Thank you very much for sending me the Globe-Theatre Micro-model. I have made a lot of Christmas decorations for the holidays. Our dormitory is festooned with them.
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    The Old Hall School | Wellington | Shropshire | 4 March [1951]
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    Dear Mummy and daddy,
    I hope you are all well. I have got a lovely little smoothing plane, it is only 3 ins long, and the blade is ⅞ of an inch thick. Please could you send me an Anorma Post Office. Please get the money out off my savings. Mr Whitton gave a lecture on archaeolagy, it was very interesting. Conjouring has taken itself in the school and I am very interested in it. I am making some tricks myself. I have made some more things for you and Hugh.
    With love from Bruce
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    The Old Hall School | Wellington | Shropshire | 18 March [1951]
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    Dear Mummy & Daddy,
    I hope you are all well . . . We had the Gym Competition on Tuesday.
    I boxed in the ring on Monday against a tough. 13 I won 5-3. I am in the final for the Junior Cup. I have got a very good chance.
    With love from Bruce
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    The Old Hall School | Wellington | Shropshire | 15 July [1951]
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    Dear Mummy and Daddy,
    I hope you are all well. There was a match yesturday against Yarlet Hall. It was a draw. We were 125 for two. They were 4 for nine. It will soon be the end of term . . . How are the little black pigs 14 getting on? I was awfully embarrassed yesturday, some weomen, and one man, sat on our bench, while we were watching the match. I had to entertain them.
    With love from
    Bruce
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    The Old Hall School | Wellington | Shropshire | 30 September [1951]
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    Dear Mummy and daddy,
    I hope you are all well. I am afraid that I have not got much to say as I only came on Thursday. Have you enjoyed your holiday at Marlborough. Please will you plant the bulbs I bought. The romundculus are those tentacle looking things and the iascas the little bulbs. Are the gold fish all right? The new matron staff is most peculiar, especially Miss Griffiths who we have nicknamed ‘The Grifon’. She is most peculier and waddles about like a duck.
    With love
    From
    Bruce
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    The Old Hall School | Wellington | Shropshire | 7 October [1951]
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    Dear Mummy and Daddy,
    On Friday night the fireworks were very nice. There were very big cathrine weels. I had a lovely firwork to hold called a flying star. On Tuesday we had a lovely film called the Overlanders. It was about driving cattale over Australia. They went from the Northern Territory to Queenslands. They came to a deep river were there were two big crocodiles. When the cart was going over one of the crocidiles woke up and splashed into the water. It came up to the cart when one of the men took a shot at it and killed it and then they got to a city they took the catle through. Then one of the men fell of his horse and broke his arm and some catle trod on him and he broke his leg, so they took him to hospidle for three days and for six days they went with out water. They found some water at a windmill pump but the horses only had a little drink when it stoped. They rested them and there was a fire. The cattle rushed untll they smelt water, the men rushed to see what it was but it was a bog. They tried to get them back but the horses got poisoned and they ran very fast, but they fell over, and they died. They went back to the cart. One day when they were lying on a rock some wild horses came and they made a wire fence and they traped them and they broke them in so they had some more horses. They