Letter from Frances Hodgkins to Isabel Field
Date
28 Dec 1896
See full details
See transcription
Object Detail
Date
28 Dec 1896
Transcript
Cranmore Lodge Dec 28th ‘96
My Dearest Sis
Thank you so very much for the purse, you couldn’t have given me anything I liked better. It was good of you and Mother to send down such a generous parcel. Father was delighted with Lydia’s photo. She is very like you, we all think. What do you think of the McGowan baby. I know Alice intended sending you one. Willie is very much taken with the two children together and wants to know if you can spare him one. He says he would rather like to do the proud uncle, with two nieces like that to show off. I hope girlie will like her doll, it amused me for a long time and I was quite loathe to part with it. No aspersions meant about the soap! I hope it will come in useful, and I hope you will make up a suitable story about the corals for Lydia and tell her when she comes to years of understanding that her Aunt Fanny and probably her Mother used to wear them when they were little girls. Marion Scott has an almost identical one. I know you will excuse a short letter tonight, as it is now past twelve and I have to be up early to see Willie off, so thanking you again for the purse, and hoping you are feeling stronger believe me you ever loving sister Fanny.
My Dearest Sis
Thank you so very much for the purse, you couldn’t have given me anything I liked better. It was good of you and Mother to send down such a generous parcel. Father was delighted with Lydia’s photo. She is very like you, we all think. What do you think of the McGowan baby. I know Alice intended sending you one. Willie is very much taken with the two children together and wants to know if you can spare him one. He says he would rather like to do the proud uncle, with two nieces like that to show off. I hope girlie will like her doll, it amused me for a long time and I was quite loathe to part with it. No aspersions meant about the soap! I hope it will come in useful, and I hope you will make up a suitable story about the corals for Lydia and tell her when she comes to years of understanding that her Aunt Fanny and probably her Mother used to wear them when they were little girls. Marion Scott has an almost identical one. I know you will excuse a short letter tonight, as it is now past twelve and I have to be up early to see Willie off, so thanking you again for the purse, and hoping you are feeling stronger believe me you ever loving sister Fanny.
Pages
3 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