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School
Absence Letter 1903 I
love this, a letter explaining absence from either 1903, it
reads
"This is to certify that Olive Alma Hicks
residing at Rynehill is suffering from Congenital heart disease
and is at present unable to attend school February
25th 1903"
I originally thought this was a parents letter to the school and
joked that I would never have been able to forge the hand writing to
make my school absence letters. However, John Mann recognises the name:-
"This would have been Dr. T. O'Kelly of
21 High Street, Chipping Norton. This fact comes from my research into
the history of the local telephone system, Dr
O'Kelly was one of the original subscribers on the Chipping Norton
Exchange when it opened in 1905, his number was Chipping Norton
9! So strictly speaking the document is a doctor's
certificate rather than an absence letter."
I guess Doctors have always had illegible and
certainly un-copy-able handwriting.
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