Letter from Frances Hodgkins to Isabel Field
Date
11 Sep 1912
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Date
11 Sep 1912
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St Valery s. Somme France Sept 11th
My Dearest Sis
I am homeward bound at last! I have got a berth on the “Otranto” sailing 3rd Oct from Toulon – a bare 3 weeks from now. I want you awfully to come to Melbourne & meet me if you can. Do try – it would be lovely to see you there on my arrival & we could run the Show together & make a big thing out of it with your presence gracing it. I am sure you want a holiday & spree away from yr family. For my own sake I want you to come badly – I feel horribly shy coming home after all these years & will want your support. I do hope you will be tempted by the idea & that I will see you on the pier when I arrive. I am in the throes. Another week here polishing off pupils – they have rallied round me to the last & we depart hence en masse. The weather is doing its awful utmost & we might as well be in an Aquarium.
Two of my pupils – the sporting sort – are going up in an aeroplane tomorrow if it is calm enough. They have to pay £4 each.
There is much to be done before I sail – it frightens me but I will worry thro’ somehow I expect. Send me a line to Colombo or Fremantle or Adelaide & say you will cheer my homesick eyes with a sight of yr dear old self.
Your loving sister. I arrive Melbourne about 7th or 8th November I fancy. I shall be most awfully disappointed if you don’t come. I am sure you wld enjoy it. I know I should. Best love to Mother.
My Dearest Sis
I am homeward bound at last! I have got a berth on the “Otranto” sailing 3rd Oct from Toulon – a bare 3 weeks from now. I want you awfully to come to Melbourne & meet me if you can. Do try – it would be lovely to see you there on my arrival & we could run the Show together & make a big thing out of it with your presence gracing it. I am sure you want a holiday & spree away from yr family. For my own sake I want you to come badly – I feel horribly shy coming home after all these years & will want your support. I do hope you will be tempted by the idea & that I will see you on the pier when I arrive. I am in the throes. Another week here polishing off pupils – they have rallied round me to the last & we depart hence en masse. The weather is doing its awful utmost & we might as well be in an Aquarium.
Two of my pupils – the sporting sort – are going up in an aeroplane tomorrow if it is calm enough. They have to pay £4 each.
There is much to be done before I sail – it frightens me but I will worry thro’ somehow I expect. Send me a line to Colombo or Fremantle or Adelaide & say you will cheer my homesick eyes with a sight of yr dear old self.
Your loving sister. I arrive Melbourne about 7th or 8th November I fancy. I shall be most awfully disappointed if you don’t come. I am sure you wld enjoy it. I know I should. Best love to Mother.
Pages
2 pages
Sender's address
St Valery s. Somme, France
Institutional No.
MS-Papers-0085-25
Credit Line
Letters
from
Frances
Hodgkins.
Field,
Isabel
Jane,
1867-1950
:
Correspondence
of
Frances
Hodgkins
and
family
/
collected
by
Isabel
Field.
Ref:
MS-Papers-0085-25. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22715535
MS-Papers-0085-25. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22715535