South Yorkshire Times, Friday, January 1st, 1932

A Judge and a President.

Greetings after hand from Mr Ernest Hampshire, formerly an official at Barnburgh colliery, now doing well in USA as president of the Elam Products Company.

Chicago is his home town but lately he found himself in Detroit and looked up an old friend, Robert Baldwin, a miner at Manvers Main and now a thriving lawyer in America, in fact a judge.

“Judge Baldwin,” writes Mr. Hampshire, “is very comfortable settled here and doing fine, with practically all his family around him. I was delighted to meet his dear old dad, Wilson Baldwin, who I had not seen since I first went to Barnburgh. Bobby and the whole crowd are in excellent health as the picture taken by 17 year old daughter shows, Bobby is about as far from the middle as a herring is between the eyes. For a few hours we live, taught, and for England.”

The snapshot shows Mr Hampshire on the left and Mr Baldwin on the right.

Mr Hampshire continues: “One day I will write you a long letter on the actual conditions here in Chicago, but do, for the love of Hike, fight against this proposed substitution of drink in cafes for drink in public houses.

The hip pocket flasks here are responsible for the imitating of adult people by the young grads and high school girls. On this I could write for a week and some day will send you a bird’s eye view of the whole situation. It’s simply appalling.”