Letter from Frances Hodgkins to Geoff Field
Date
28 Aug 1917
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Date
28 Aug 1917
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7 Porthmeor Studio St Ives Cornwall Aug 28th
My Dear Geoff
A great relief & pleasure to get your nice long letter of the 19th, come yesterday after I had about given you up for lost. In fact I had written to the High Commissioner of our Colony to look you up & see where you had got to. I expect I’ll hear from him in a week or two that you are safe. Try & write me a service card every 3 or 4 days so that I know you are all right & can go on writing & sending things.
I am afraid you have had an awful soaking this rough weather, unless it has had the grace to leave France alone. Here it has been atrocious - & the less said about it the better. All the sea side of the Studio is one big sop – the seas got on board night before last & did a lot of mischief especially among my cushions. Do you remember the nice cake shop where you had a glass of true Cornish milk the morn you left, well their plate window blew in, so you figure to yourself the cosy time we are having. I am only telling you these little details so that you may comfort yourself that perhaps after all it is safer & drier in the trenches. I sent 2 pkts to you yesterday 1 of cake & t’other chocolates. Let me have card when they reach you. Did you get the currant loaf & was it very stodgy when it found you? Don’t thank me dear Geoff for these trifles – it is I who have to thank you remember for the splendid thing you are doing. Don’t try to write letters I know you haven’t a moment to spare & the Home ones have to be written somehow. Just send a card & I will be satisfied & will go on sending you parcels if I know you are still ducking shells. I pray for warm weather for you & think of you all the time. Blessings & love from your Aunt Fanny
My Dear Geoff
A great relief & pleasure to get your nice long letter of the 19th, come yesterday after I had about given you up for lost. In fact I had written to the High Commissioner of our Colony to look you up & see where you had got to. I expect I’ll hear from him in a week or two that you are safe. Try & write me a service card every 3 or 4 days so that I know you are all right & can go on writing & sending things.
I am afraid you have had an awful soaking this rough weather, unless it has had the grace to leave France alone. Here it has been atrocious - & the less said about it the better. All the sea side of the Studio is one big sop – the seas got on board night before last & did a lot of mischief especially among my cushions. Do you remember the nice cake shop where you had a glass of true Cornish milk the morn you left, well their plate window blew in, so you figure to yourself the cosy time we are having. I am only telling you these little details so that you may comfort yourself that perhaps after all it is safer & drier in the trenches. I sent 2 pkts to you yesterday 1 of cake & t’other chocolates. Let me have card when they reach you. Did you get the currant loaf & was it very stodgy when it found you? Don’t thank me dear Geoff for these trifles – it is I who have to thank you remember for the splendid thing you are doing. Don’t try to write letters I know you haven’t a moment to spare & the Home ones have to be written somehow. Just send a card & I will be satisfied & will go on sending you parcels if I know you are still ducking shells. I pray for warm weather for you & think of you all the time. Blessings & love from your Aunt Fanny
Pages
4 pages
Sender's address
7 Porthmeor Studio, St. Ives, Cornwall
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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