sea view cottage
Deadwood
1965
Dear Queenie,
today has been very bleak it started of awful popa has been picking on me again he says the most awful things about me .he says that other children are all better then me which makes me feel bad about myself. muma tried her best to encourage me to feel good about my self but popa is so spitful he wins all the time. I was standing by the big gum tree in the playground today and miss williams came over to me and started to hit me very hard , shs smacked me around my face several times she even pulled my hair i could not believe what she was doing to me .there is a girl standing next to me miss williams didn’t hit her I think she didn’t hit her because she has a mum dad and her sister is a teacher I don’t have a mum or dad there wasn’t any point telling my grandmother what miss williams had done to me as there wouldn’t be anything my grandmother could do about it anyway my grandmother has enough problems with my grandfather. I am so unhappy i so wish that I could run away or if popa were to die I would be happy and so would my muma . love to you Queenie from Dorothy xxxx.