{"id":190,"date":"2026-01-17T15:17:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T15:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spargosykes.co.uk\/?page_id=190"},"modified":"2026-01-17T16:57:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T16:57:39","slug":"nellie-spargo-letter-to-tommy-15-5-1925","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.spargosykes.co.uk\/?page_id=190","title":{"rendered":"Nellie Spargo letter to Tommy 15.5.1925"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr OT Spargo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">58 Upper Park Rd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hampstead<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">London NW3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">Paul Churchtown<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">May 15<sup>th<\/sup> 1925<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My dear Tommy,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just a line or two in answer to your letter this morning and Birthday present and card. Thanks awfully for both. I am feeling better in myself but my legs are about the same. Poor Ma, what a pickle to be in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are getting lovely weather, glorious. Summer time of course it seems a long time since you came home when you came and all I feel as if I haven\u2019t talked to you enough and then the time do come again to go. Funny isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cora has been down a good while today brought down a nice glass of cream from mother for my birthday. Yesterday she brought home some tongue for her present (my strong weakness). Beatrice brought a bunch of lilies of the valley for me lively too they are. So I have done very well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Choral is on tonight too hope they will do well. Isn\u2019t it sad on Martha Pearce husband poor soul; too don\u2019t take long for sorrow to overtake one. Martha used to be so carefree when in Office didn\u2019t she? It\u2019s a good thing we can\u2019t tell what will befall us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Bannister was here this week he is still longing to have a dig at me. I don\u2019t know it is hard to know what to be at. I am decidedly better than when he saw me last he said but there is much improvement wanted. I must still think over it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I forgot to say Auntie brought up a rich little spring chicken lovely so I am in for luxuries indeed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have wrote about enough now I am feeling tired, boisterous to begin with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Goodbye for the time<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yours lovingly&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mother xXxX<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i am sorry to hear Mrs Cory is so unwell. I hope she will be better again soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr OT Spargo 58 Upper Park Rd Hampstead London NW3 Paul Churchtown May 15th 1925 My dear Tommy, Just a line or two in answer to your letter this morning and Birthday present and card. Thanks awfully for both. I am feeling better in myself but my legs are about the same. Poor Ma, what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-190","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spargosykes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spargosykes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spargosykes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spargosykes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spargosykes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.spargosykes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/www.spargosykes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/190\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spargosykes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}