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Feb 24, 1955

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Bonny View
Beauly
Inverness Shire
Scotland

24 – 2 – 55

Our Dear Friend Pat
Don’t you think its time I was writing a few lines to thank you for your very kind remembrances of us across in Scotland, but here I am at last. I do hope you & your family are keeping well as I am thankful to say we are all still here in the land of the living. My dear wife has been an invalid for a few years now, but we are still left together & we had a great event a week today, we had our Golden Wedding its wonderful to be left together for 50 years, it doesn’t seem long but there are many things happened since then.
We meant to have a few of our friends with us but it was the stormiest day we have had all the season & none of them was able to come but we had Vana & her youngest boy & Catherine the

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Other girl who lives down on the borders they came in advance & we were so glad to have them, with us. We got lots of presents & 50 greeting cards & 11 greeting telegrams. One of the presents was a beautiful Bible from the minister & my fellow elders. The Minister & his wife braved the storm & walked up here with it as there no way of taking a car out at the roads were all blocked with snow drifts.
I am sure you will be hearing on the radio & reading in the press the stormy winter we are having, the paper said today we didn’t have the like since 1895. I wasn’t as old as I am now but I can remember it very well. We got snow about Christmas & we didn’t see the ground till well in March but we got a good spring then.
We have our youngest Boy Uurdo & his wife & their boy & girl living with us as the Doctor said my wife couldn’t be alone. So we get on very well & Uurdo has got a Tractor now & the Horse is away so we have an extra cow.


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Vana was speaking bout you and the shaving set you give to her boy Ian. He is just a nice a goy as ever & him time will soon be out as a carpenter & then it will be the army for two years, as you know the other boy is in school yet. I told he I was writing you so she asked me to remember them all to you kindly, we hear from them all very regular the boy in South Africa has a big business of his own now & is doing very well. We had the girl who is in the states home a year last Christmas & Husband & youngest boy. My sister Hannah & Donnie from Old Downie were to be with us but the storm prevented them. They are leaving Old Downie they bought a house & small piece of land about 4 miles on the other side of Inverness. Their boy Simon is in New Gunia on the same side of the water as yourself, he is almost a year in now.
Now our dear friend you will be tired

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Reading all this rubbish if you can read it my hand is a bit twisted with this awful trouble Arthritis but it might be worse.
By the way I was talking to your old Landlady Mrs Sheaver she is going strong still a game as ever, although she is a widow, you would see many changes in the village & all around if you came over again, who knows but you might give us a call some day, perhaps.
Now this is all for this time & I do hope it finds you & yours all well.
With kind rememberences of the past your affectionate old Friends

Alice & John Lee
God Bless you dear Pat & overlook mistakes & awful writing