The Insult of Jubbulpore | ||
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Posted 9 years ago
SpiritBear
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Jubbulpore is a large city in India and is here likely misunderstood by the writer home in 1912 on his World Tour.
"In Jubbulpore May 3- Terrible, dirty, dagraded, ignoramus [?] people. Leave tomorrow fro Madras.- Yours R.P.-"
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Ignorant .... I think.
It has an 's' at the end, though, or so it looks.
Good decoding, Spirit,....... I know it looks like an "a" (dagraded), but I think it's actually a capitol E in script lettering, no??? [;>)
Looks like a q to me, but it's also 1:30 a.m. here. LOL.
I just thought it was neat enough to post, as I've not had such an insulting written message on a postcard before. He must have just been passing through, perhaps switching ships.
It was common for Victorians to do World Tours, if wealthy enough. I assume he was.
As for why a capital E comes as the second letter, I wouldn't understand it at all.
Maybe because that's the corrected spelling (degraded), whether the second letter is a small case "e" or a capital "E" written in cursive style, which is the handwriting style of many people, including yours truly. [;>)