Identity area
Reference code
Hoyle/Box 23/3/167
Unique identifier
GB 275 Hoyle/Box 23/3/167
Title
Autograph letter, signed, from Donald and Mary Shane, Santa Cruz, California, [to FH and Barbara Hoyle]
Date(s)
- Dec 1981 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
2p paper
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Wishes the Hoyle family a happy Christmas. Christina, aged 11 weeks, still smile up from her desk. Wonders how Liz 'has managed about going daily to Oxford'. Still follow FH's work in the press. They still find their 'Farm' a 'happy place to live', although their lives (at 86 and 84) are 'more & more restricted to the area'. They are visited by old friends, and Donald goes to the Lick Observatory 'one day a week or so'. Donald still remains active, and cuts down wood for their open fire. A back problem makes walking painful for Mary, but they are trying heavy doses of calcium.