Letter from Frances Hodgkins to Geoff Field
Date
30 Jul 1917
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Date
30 Jul 1917
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7 Porthmeor Studio St Ives Cornwall July 30th
My Dear Geoff
Thank you for the p.c. & papers, most interesting. I like that little N.Z. paper & I am glad to you get it. Did you get the parcel all right? I want another p.c from you soon – write as often as you can dear boy you can guess I am anxious all the time – I feel you are in a hot corner, somewhere near Nieuport I take it. I am just back from Port Isaac, where I have been for a week painting that portrait I told you of. Had a ripping good time & loved the rest & the change. I was miles away from shops, right in the country, so could not send papers to you. They trotted me round the Coast in a one horse shay after the days work, & I saw quite a lot of Nth. Cornwall, including Tintagel, King Arthur’s Castle, where we dined one night. In the hall is a huge round table, engraved with the names of the different Knights, Lancelot etc who sat round it. Not the original, vous savez, but a pretty good imitation. I am sending you a currant loaf, Cornish variety – wh I hope you will receive before it is too dry & stale warranted fresh for a month. Tell me if you get it. Do you get your letters all right? Lots of them I hope. You see how angry the English people get when Peace is mentioned.
Pilchard season’s is starting & lots of fish about. Much love dear Geoff & blessing & write soon. You did put my name down as one of your next-of-kin didn’t you? Be sure of this won’t you. Your affectionate Aunt Fanny
My Dear Geoff
Thank you for the p.c. & papers, most interesting. I like that little N.Z. paper & I am glad to you get it. Did you get the parcel all right? I want another p.c from you soon – write as often as you can dear boy you can guess I am anxious all the time – I feel you are in a hot corner, somewhere near Nieuport I take it. I am just back from Port Isaac, where I have been for a week painting that portrait I told you of. Had a ripping good time & loved the rest & the change. I was miles away from shops, right in the country, so could not send papers to you. They trotted me round the Coast in a one horse shay after the days work, & I saw quite a lot of Nth. Cornwall, including Tintagel, King Arthur’s Castle, where we dined one night. In the hall is a huge round table, engraved with the names of the different Knights, Lancelot etc who sat round it. Not the original, vous savez, but a pretty good imitation. I am sending you a currant loaf, Cornish variety – wh I hope you will receive before it is too dry & stale warranted fresh for a month. Tell me if you get it. Do you get your letters all right? Lots of them I hope. You see how angry the English people get when Peace is mentioned.
Pilchard season’s is starting & lots of fish about. Much love dear Geoff & blessing & write soon. You did put my name down as one of your next-of-kin didn’t you? Be sure of this won’t you. Your affectionate Aunt Fanny
Pages
4 pages
Sender's address
7 Porthmeor Studio, St. Ives, Cornwall
Institutional No.
MS-Papers-0085-32
Credit Line
Letters
from
Frances
Hodgkins.
Field,
Isabel
Jane,
1867-1950
:
Correspondence
of
Frances
Hodgkins
and
family
/
collected
by
Isabel
Field.
Ref:
MS-Papers-0085-32.
Alexander
Turnbull
Library,
Wellington,
New
Zealand.
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