Letter from Frances Hodgkins to Isabel Field
Date
07 Jul 1896
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Date
07 Jul 1896
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Cranmore Lodge July 7th 96
My dearest Sissie
We haven’t heard from you for a perfect age, but Ethel’s letter set our minds at rest. I am so sorry you have had toothache and I hope you will have no further pain now you have had some teeth out. Frank was suffering horribly also, and I made an appointment for him and he has had 3 out and is quite free from pain now. I had a letter from Mrs Cargill which I enclose and she seems to have enjoyed her afternoon with you. Isn’t her baby a miniature E.G.?
I went down to see Mrs Scott on Sunday and found her still in bed where she had been for some of the week. It seems as if she will never get any better and she is just as bright and cheerful as ever. She is taking a new medicine from which she hopes great things. I have sold 2 out of the 3 pictures I sent to Chch. 7 guineas in all, half of which belongs to Mother being the proceeds of the sale of her birthday present. Don’t forget to tell me in our next letter when the Wllgton show comes off. They haven’t sent me a notice, and nobody seems to know when it is. The last heard of May was from Colombo and she reports herself as being overcome by the heat and a bag of bones. It is a very bad time of year to go thro’ the Red Sea and I am sure she will never be able to stand it as the least touch of heat knocks her over. There is very little news to tell you. The Savage Club still continues. I have only been twice. It is almost impossible to go now; there is nobody up this way that goes except Alice McG. And she is no use to me as an escort. People have been very good offering to take me in for the night but I do not care about staying away all night. Tonight I am going to stay with the Rattrays and after next Monday when I give an item for Kate’s evening I am not going again. It is no joke these dirty winter evenings with the roads in the filthy state they are in. Two of the Rattrays are going up to Wellington for the Golf Tournament but when I don’t know. Did you hear the C. Rattrays have to turn out of their house this week. I think their landlord is going to be married and wants it himself. It is rather hard lines isn’t it?
No more today. It is Monday morning and I have no business to be writing. With love to yourself, Ethel and Will. Your loving sister Fanny. Thank Ethel for her letter which was very welcome.
My dearest Sissie
We haven’t heard from you for a perfect age, but Ethel’s letter set our minds at rest. I am so sorry you have had toothache and I hope you will have no further pain now you have had some teeth out. Frank was suffering horribly also, and I made an appointment for him and he has had 3 out and is quite free from pain now. I had a letter from Mrs Cargill which I enclose and she seems to have enjoyed her afternoon with you. Isn’t her baby a miniature E.G.?
I went down to see Mrs Scott on Sunday and found her still in bed where she had been for some of the week. It seems as if she will never get any better and she is just as bright and cheerful as ever. She is taking a new medicine from which she hopes great things. I have sold 2 out of the 3 pictures I sent to Chch. 7 guineas in all, half of which belongs to Mother being the proceeds of the sale of her birthday present. Don’t forget to tell me in our next letter when the Wllgton show comes off. They haven’t sent me a notice, and nobody seems to know when it is. The last heard of May was from Colombo and she reports herself as being overcome by the heat and a bag of bones. It is a very bad time of year to go thro’ the Red Sea and I am sure she will never be able to stand it as the least touch of heat knocks her over. There is very little news to tell you. The Savage Club still continues. I have only been twice. It is almost impossible to go now; there is nobody up this way that goes except Alice McG. And she is no use to me as an escort. People have been very good offering to take me in for the night but I do not care about staying away all night. Tonight I am going to stay with the Rattrays and after next Monday when I give an item for Kate’s evening I am not going again. It is no joke these dirty winter evenings with the roads in the filthy state they are in. Two of the Rattrays are going up to Wellington for the Golf Tournament but when I don’t know. Did you hear the C. Rattrays have to turn out of their house this week. I think their landlord is going to be married and wants it himself. It is rather hard lines isn’t it?
No more today. It is Monday morning and I have no business to be writing. With love to yourself, Ethel and Will. Your loving sister Fanny. Thank Ethel for her letter which was very welcome.
Pages
4 pages
Sender's address
Cranmore Lodge
Institutional No.
MS-Papers-0085-05
Credit Line
Letters
from
Frances
Hodgkins.
Field,
Isabel
Jane,
1867-1950
:
Correspondence
of
Frances
Hodgkins
and
family
/
collected
by
Isabel
Field.
Ref:
MS-Papers-0085-05.
Alexander
Turnbull
Library,
Wellington,
New
Zealand.
https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23234786
https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23234786