1937 Insurance Letter

Written on 11 July 2018.

We thought this letter to an insurance company in 1937 was rather approproate:

"Dear Sirs,

Many I thank you for so charmingly making enquiries about my age? But it makes me quite bashful! Just between you and myself, I was born some time after the battle of Waterloo. Isn't it funny that I have insured my car with you for over 15 years and you are only now taking a personal interest in my welfare?

If you would like to know a few more personal details for your books, I do not mind letting you know that I do not like

a) rhubab,

b) most modern Novelists,

c) coloured finger-nails,

d) the Northcliffe and Rothermere Press,

e) Insurance Companies who make impertinent enquiries.

Any further enquiries will be gladly answered. Yours very truly . . ."

(Source: Aviva Magazine, p5., June issue)