Letter from Frances Hodgkins to Isabel Field
Date
06 May 1900
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Date
06 May 1900
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My dearest Sis
I am indeed glad to hear you are thinking of paying us a visit. I shall love to have you and I think you will be very comfortable at the Bank. Come as soon as possible before the very cold weather sets in. While you are here I think it would be a very good thing to try a course of massage, there is a splendid woman here a Mrs Booth who simply works wonders where nervous pains and aches are concerned. She did Mrs Scott so much good if you remember, and nearly every second person one knows has been under her treatment some time or other. I feel convinced it will do you good and it will be a very good opportunity for you to give yourself up quietly to her with out any home distraction. Wire as soon as this reaches you and I will know when to expect you.
Mrs McLean is very anxious to know if you will be down in time for the wedding which they are hurrying on with the usual indecent haste – the invitations are to be out tomorrow and the poor child has hardly finished receiving congratulations. Mr Tom Roberts the Sydney artist has been in Dunedin for this last week and I had the honor of his company on several occasions at the studio. He greeted me as a brother brush which was flattering. He went home via Melbourne, otherwise I would have given him a letter to you. I have been doing a great deal more gadding this week than is good for me and wound up on Sat night by standing at Jacob’s corner and collecting for the Famine Fund with Mrs Butterworth – caught a chill and feel anything but bright today. I am indeed sorry to hear you are still suffering from your back and that the Nelson trip didn’t do you as much good as you hoped - be sure and down down to me and I will give you a nice comfortable rest which will set you up for the winter. Best love to Mother and the chicks and the same to your self & Will. Yours lovingly Fanny.
I am indeed glad to hear you are thinking of paying us a visit. I shall love to have you and I think you will be very comfortable at the Bank. Come as soon as possible before the very cold weather sets in. While you are here I think it would be a very good thing to try a course of massage, there is a splendid woman here a Mrs Booth who simply works wonders where nervous pains and aches are concerned. She did Mrs Scott so much good if you remember, and nearly every second person one knows has been under her treatment some time or other. I feel convinced it will do you good and it will be a very good opportunity for you to give yourself up quietly to her with out any home distraction. Wire as soon as this reaches you and I will know when to expect you.
Mrs McLean is very anxious to know if you will be down in time for the wedding which they are hurrying on with the usual indecent haste – the invitations are to be out tomorrow and the poor child has hardly finished receiving congratulations. Mr Tom Roberts the Sydney artist has been in Dunedin for this last week and I had the honor of his company on several occasions at the studio. He greeted me as a brother brush which was flattering. He went home via Melbourne, otherwise I would have given him a letter to you. I have been doing a great deal more gadding this week than is good for me and wound up on Sat night by standing at Jacob’s corner and collecting for the Famine Fund with Mrs Butterworth – caught a chill and feel anything but bright today. I am indeed sorry to hear you are still suffering from your back and that the Nelson trip didn’t do you as much good as you hoped - be sure and down down to me and I will give you a nice comfortable rest which will set you up for the winter. Best love to Mother and the chicks and the same to your self & Will. Yours lovingly Fanny.
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4 pages
Institutional No.
MS-Papers-0085-08
Credit Line
Letters
from
Frances
Hodgkins.
Field,
Isabel
Jane,
1867-1950
:
Correspondence
of
Frances
Hodgkins
and
family
/
collected
by
Isabel
Field.
Ref:
MS-Papers-0085-08.
Alexander
Turnbull
Library,
Wellington,
New
Zealand.
https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23192117
https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23192117