| Description | These letters were written by Miss Annie Hughes of Thornton, who was in service in London with Mrs Bowen Rowlands, Mrs Stock and some unnamed "German people", to her boyfriend, who worked with the hounds in the kennels at St Botolph's and other places. The letters cover the period from when she first met him in Thornton until he enlisted in the South African Mounted Police and went to fight in the Boer War. Annie writes about walking in Kew Gardens and Richmond Park, going to the theatre and the chapel and meeting other Welsh girls in service. Her mother and father were dead, but she had at least 2 uncles - Johnny and Abel - and some unnamed stepbrothers. While in London, she saw Lord George Sangster's Circus and the pantomime "Puss in Boots". In her letters Annie mentions Billy Griffiths accidentally shooting his daughter-in-law at Milford, Billy Jenkins' wife Anna ill with typhoid fever at Broad Haven |