To\u00a0 Miss A Johnston<\/p>\n
Matron
\nThe Spinning House
\nCambridge
\nEngland<\/p>\n
My dear Aunt<\/p>\n
I received your welcome letter and was glad to hear you were enjoying good health. I had no time to answer it before last Mail as at present I am doing the duty of Superintendent in addition to my own duties, which leaves me very little time to myself; the present Superintendent is going on Pension. I have applied for the situation but cannot say whether I will be successful in getting it or no. It has been advertised in the papers, the salary is Rupees250 with Rs30 for House Rent, in all \u00a328-0-0 per month. At present I am in receipt of Rs150 having had a rise of Rs30 from the 1st<\/sup> of January.<\/p>\n My dear Aunt, you would never take me for a soldier, in fact I am only in name. I never wear Regimentals on any occasion. I can hold my situation either as a soldier or a civilian, but I prefer the former because I can look forward to a pension andI am looking forward to be made a Warrant Officer which gives a very good pension. I like my place very well, there is a great deal to do but I like it the better for that as it keeps my mind always employed. This is a beautiful station, so close to the Hills (the lower range of the Himalayas). The college is a fine building; I enclose an Engraving of it. The Building you see in the background is my printing office and there is a similar building on the other side where the Lithe and Wood Engraving Depts are. Since commencing this I have been made officiating Superintendent with Rs50 a month extra, but enough about myself.<\/p>\n I am happy to say my little boy is keeping very well and I trust he will keep so during the ensuing hot weather.<\/p>\n My dear Aunt, you must excuse this scroll. I will give you all the news I can in my next but I have a lot of work before me tonight and tomorrow. The mail leaves so you must excuse me.<\/p>\n You mention about my having a cousin here. He is a long way off and not the slightest chance of meeting. Now do write on return and give us news you have.<\/p>\n I remain Dear Aunt<\/p>\n Your affectionate Nephew<\/p>\n J Johnston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To\u00a0 Miss A Johnston Matron The Spinning House Cambridge England My dear Aunt I received your welcome letter and was glad to hear you were enjoying good health. I had no time to answer it before last Mail as at present I am doing the duty of Superintendent in addition to my own duties, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesjohnstons-indianletters.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesjohnstons-indianletters.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesjohnstons-indianletters.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesjohnstons-indianletters.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesjohnstons-indianletters.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesjohnstons-indianletters.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesjohnstons-indianletters.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesjohnstons-indianletters.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesjohnstons-indianletters.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesjohnstons-indianletters.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}