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Dear ‘Gasolene,’ How are you getting on now?  Kate told me you were 2nd in class.  Do you think Mac. has forgotten our albums?  I like being at school very much.  I’m going to Centre next Monday.  Will you write to me soon?
With love from Gladys
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1.
Kathleen was fifteen and a half when this postcard was written to her.

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Margaret Jackson, Kathleen's UK school friend, mentions Gladys Corsan a few times - see:
...so maybe that’s who this was.  But I doubt that I'll ever know for sure.

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4 Wellesley Road, Wanstead, Essex - that's where Kathleen was born, and where the Farmers lived for many years.

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Gasolene: this isn't a mis-spelling, but rather the original spelling, which we don't use anymore.  From Quora I got:

USA — Gasoline — originally ‘gasolene’ (1863), possibly influenced by the trademark ‘Gazeline’ — abbreviated to ‘gas’

In the UK, they say petrol instead of gas, but maybe the usage was more fluid back then when cars were a new thing, or maybe somebody heard that petrol was called gasolene in the US, and happily applied the word to Kathleen.
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