Category: Lang – Donald 1933-2019

Letter 1958-03-03 Fanny Foote – Donald Lang

664A Mt Eden Rd Monday Mar 3rd (1958) Dear Donald, First of all we all send our love & very best wishes for today. A bit late, but they are coming to you by the air as well. We thoroughly enjoyed your newsy letter with the description of your holiday doings. You certainly made the most of your time & managed to see some interesting spots. Now you will be settling down to some grind. […]

Letter 1960-08-28 Fanny Foote – Donald Lang

664A Mt Eden Rd 28.8.60 Dear Donald, Thank you for your interesting letter, which we all enjoyed. Your time at Canberra is drawing to an end. We are looking forward to seeing you before you take off for your next venture. We hear U.S.A., Israel, U.K. all mentioned. We hope it will be U.K. you go to. We like to think N.Z s best brains go to our own Kingdom for one thing, for another […]

Letter 1960-12-16 Eva Wilson – Donald Lang

664A Mt Eden Rd Mt Eden S.1. 16.12.60 Dear Donald, Thank you for your fine letter of sympathy, it was much appreciated by us all. Truly Aunt Fanny has been a good example to us, she was sustained by her faith in God right through her illness, & her courage never failed. She was most thankful to Elizabeth(her unmarried daughter, a nurse) for her devoted care & attention, & to be nursed at home with […]

Letter 1968-12-02 Aunt Elsie – Donald Lang

Langs Beach Waipu N.Z. 2-12-68 Dear Donald, We all (Elsie,Myra,Hilda) thank you for your kind letter of sympathy, of course we don’t realise it yet. Annie was the one who never went away from home until your Father was married, and after a while, when our Mother came home again, Hilda stayed with her for the remainder of Ma’s life. (1952) Altho sudden, Annie’s death was not unexpected, we knew she had a bad cardiac […]

Letter 1969-12-24 Aunt Myra – Donald Lang

Langs’ Beach Waipu, N.Z. 24-12-‘69 Dears All, D.J &j Your message arrived and was much appreciated – so much that I told Doreen that I proposed to cable a reply in time for Christmas. It shocked her Scottish soul – mine is shock proof by now – and when she said that an air-mail message would reach you just as early as she had not your “gone away” Christmas address, I agreed with her. So […]

Letter 1971-02-24 Aunt Myra – Donald Lang

Langs’ Beach Waipu, N.Z. 24-02-‘71 Dear Donald, We are very pleased to hear that you are heading homewards in the not too distant future. We can hardly wait to see you and Jean and your nice little family. This note is to explain who Alison Clark is, in case she contacts you before you leave. She should be nice – she is the grand-daughter of our lifelong friends Ted & Stella Browne of Howick, who […]

Letter 1971-06-12 Aunt Myra – Donald Lang

Langs’ Beach Waipu, N.Z. 12-06-‘71 Dear Donald and Jean and j and a, Surprise! surprise! I don’t believe I wrote and told you how much I appreciated your kindness to young Alison Clarke. I heard from her mother that she thought you (and your children) were “super” and she thoroughly enjoyed your company. Yesterday I heard from our cousin Griselda McWatt – who may give you this letter – that you are due in Sydney […]

Letter 1972-04-19 Aunt Myra – Donald Lang

Langs’ Beach Waipu, N.Z. 19-04 – 72 Dear Donald, Greetings to you and Jean and your nice little family. So many times I have thought of you and planned to put the thoughts on paper so here at last they are. Especially we missed you at New Year when we had a sort of muster (sheep like! ) of the family – more than forty came along including representatives of each of the family of […]

Letter 1972-04-19 Aunt Myra – Donald Lang

Langs’ Beach Waipu, N.Z. 19-04 – 72 Dear Donald, Greetings to you and Jean and your nice little family. So many times I have thought of you and planned to put the thoughts on paper so here at last they are. Especially we missed you at New Year when we had a sort of muster (sheep like! ) of the family – more than forty came along including representatives of each of the family of […]

Letter 1973-03-03 Aunt Myra to Donald Lang

Langs’ Beach Waipu, N.Z. 03-03 – 73 Dear Donald, We were more than pleased to get after Christmas letter bearing your family news. This must be a riposte of a kind – an after birthday reply, but at least bearing witness that you were not forgotten, and also bearing loads of good wishes from us all. (Elsie,Myra,Hilda) Do you remember, when you were very young, Hilda used to say she could easily recall the birthdays […]

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