” James can’t come to school because he hasn’t been. I’ve given him something to make him go, and when he’s been, he’ll come.”

” I want my money right away. I’ve been in bed with the doctor for a week, and it’s not doing me any good. If it goes on like this, I will have to get another doctor.”

” I enclose the completed form with three children. One of them is a mistake, as you will see when you look into it.”

“Julie didn’t come to school yesterday as she spent the weekend with the Marines and was worn out.”

“Our bedroom is freezing, and my husband had to spend the night downstairs sleeping next to an old boiler.”

“Please send me a supply of milk for having babies at reduced rates.”

“My neighbours are complaining that I let it out in the garden and it makes a lot of noise. But if I keep it in all the time there’s lots of whining and squeaking.* ( much later in the letter, it turned out to be about a dog ).