Frances reads from the 1909 Christmas Budget, one of the special holiday editions written by the ten siblings and their father, printed and bound by Bernard and read aloud in the drawing room, after tea, on Christmas Day.
Bernard, Vera, Neville, Cuthbert and Avice are at home in Sydenham on Christmas Day in 1909, with Father, and Arthur is coming to visit in a few days.
Enid is with her family in Liverpool.
Edmund is with his family in Hallam Fields.
Wilfred is in Canada and Aldwyn is in Malawi.
"This third number of the Christmas Budget, in which our Mother took so real an interest, is dedicated to her dear memory, well knowing that she would have wished its continuance as a link between her children at home and abroad."
The first item in the Christmas Budget is a poem - In Memoriam - dedicated to dear Mother. I don't know the author.
Then - Some early reminiscences - written By Rev Dr J.C. Cox about the first 18 years of his life . Stories and anecdotes from Luccombe and Bath, as well as the various schools he attended.
0:00 Intro
03:38 Poem: In Memoriam
5:32 Some early reminiscences, Dr Cox, Dec 1909
36:28 Notes on Dr Cox's memoir
55:32 More notes on Dr Cox's memoir
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