Letter from Frances Hodgkins to Geoff Field
Date
07 Aug 1917
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Date
07 Aug 1917
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St Ives Aug 7th
My Dear Geoff
I got your 2 cards today & feel much happier about you in consequence – tho’ they tell mighty little it is a comfort to see the handwriting. Afraid you are having foul weather. Do hope you are still behind the lines & not up to the eyes in Flanders mud in the trenches. Sent you off a currant loaf wh I hope you got. No news. Awful crowd of trippers about. I went yesterday to Penzance, 2 hours there 2 hours back, 2 hours at the Dentist – a thoroughly pleasant day. Travelling is to be avoided in August – trains are packed & very few & far between. Miss Williams leaves tomorrow. A letter today from Granny, who at last sends me your number, all wrong, don’t say I said so tho! This is just to say I am thinking of you & wishing you luck. Write a line when you can. Much love from your Aunt, dear Geoff.
My Dear Geoff
I got your 2 cards today & feel much happier about you in consequence – tho’ they tell mighty little it is a comfort to see the handwriting. Afraid you are having foul weather. Do hope you are still behind the lines & not up to the eyes in Flanders mud in the trenches. Sent you off a currant loaf wh I hope you got. No news. Awful crowd of trippers about. I went yesterday to Penzance, 2 hours there 2 hours back, 2 hours at the Dentist – a thoroughly pleasant day. Travelling is to be avoided in August – trains are packed & very few & far between. Miss Williams leaves tomorrow. A letter today from Granny, who at last sends me your number, all wrong, don’t say I said so tho! This is just to say I am thinking of you & wishing you luck. Write a line when you can. Much love from your Aunt, dear Geoff.
Pages
3 pages
Sender's address
St. Ives
Institutional No.
MS-Papers-0085-33
Credit Line
Letters
from
Frances
Hodgkins.
Field,
Isabel
Jane,
1867-1950
:
Correspondence
of
Frances
Hodgkins
and
family
/
collected
by
Isabel
Field.
Ref:
MS-Papers-0085-33.
Alexander
Turnbull
Library,
Wellington,
New
Zealand.
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