Reynolds & Fitch by Janet McCusker

Reynolds & Fitch by Janet McCusker

To My Dearest Mam,

I know you didn’t like my report Mam. I didn’t like it much myself, but I will show them Mam, I will. I will show them that it’s not only reading I am good at.

Mr Reynolds from Chapel says he will take me on, and with your permission I am to start Monday next, apprenticed to a Mr Davies at Reynolds & Fitch.

I will be learning lots from Mr. Davies, Mam. And Mr Reynolds says my handwriting is already copperplate and my numbers are exceptional, and that if I work hard and listen and learn from Mr Davies then one day I could become Chief clerk. And who knows Mam, maybe one day Head of all Shipping!

The wages won’t be much to start Mam, but I will always see you right. And Mr Reynolds wants someone who can live above the shop and be responsible for the boiler and the fires in the morning. So you won’t even have to feed me Mam, only on my day off once every other Sunday.

There’s another lad lives there too Mam, John, he used to go to our school, and he’s a good lad so you won’t have to worry.

I will show them Mam. if you let me, I will, you just watch.