Letters from the Garrod children to their father

I was not previously familiar with these people, some inspection shows that William Francis Garrod was an English official late in the Raj (https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2020/02/garrod-family-papers...) as well as a scab (https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2019/10/the-general-strike-1...).

I thought it was very innovative that my kids started "writing" in kindergarten using whatever phonetic spelling they could come up with. Interesting to see these children were doing the same thing long ago. Encouraging children to write this way must be more common than I thought, I don't recall doing it when I was a child.