Letter from Geoff Field to Frances Hodgkins
Date
22 Nov 1917
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22 Nov 1917
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France 22nd Nov 1917
My Dear Aunt Fanny,
I was so glad to get your letter of Nov 8th, which I received in the line several days ago. I hope you received the last letter I wrote. I am afraid I put your old address on it as I had lost the run of your new one, nevertheless I trust it reached you safely. It must have come to you like a letter from the dead, because I have not done any writing for a dickens of a long time.
Your letter came as a very pleasant surprise and I was delighted to see your well known handwriting again. I am so glad to hear that you have settled down in your new quarters so comfortably, and that you have struck such a good possy. I look forward to visiting you in the dim future when I get leave to “Blighty” although I am afraid that long expected leave is a jolly long way off yet.
It was very good of Mother and Dad to send you that money, Auntie for the purpose of supplying me with a few extra parcels. You have been really very good to me in sending me cakes and sweets so frequently and I wish I could give you some idea how grateful I am to you for them and of the great pleasure they have given me. And now, several days ago I get a letter from Miss Williams, and now, it is followed by a parcel which I received safely a few days ago. I wrote a line to Miss Williams thanking her for her letter and parcel with which I was delighted. So you see, Aunt what with your parcels, Miss William’s parcel and the dose that I get from Home I do exceptionally well. My number of correspondents is also increasing. Through a cousin of mine in NZ Mit Fletcher of Wanganui, I have got in touch with a cousin of hers, a Miss Robinson of Southend on sea and she is writing to me and as Leslie Reynolds is writing to me regularly from London I have quite a lot of correspondence to attend to.
Concerning myself, I don’t think there is very much to say Auntie except that I am still alive and well and managing to carry on an existence in the Flanders mud. At present I am very fortunate in being well behind the lines in a rest camp, enjoying a bit of a spell and trying to do a little writing at the same time. I trust all is well with you and that trade is brisk in St Ives. Well it is time for me to lift the barrage now Auntie. Will write again soon. Please remember me to Mr and Mrs Lindner and all the kind people I met in St Ives. Yours Geoff
My Dear Aunt Fanny,
I was so glad to get your letter of Nov 8th, which I received in the line several days ago. I hope you received the last letter I wrote. I am afraid I put your old address on it as I had lost the run of your new one, nevertheless I trust it reached you safely. It must have come to you like a letter from the dead, because I have not done any writing for a dickens of a long time.
Your letter came as a very pleasant surprise and I was delighted to see your well known handwriting again. I am so glad to hear that you have settled down in your new quarters so comfortably, and that you have struck such a good possy. I look forward to visiting you in the dim future when I get leave to “Blighty” although I am afraid that long expected leave is a jolly long way off yet.
It was very good of Mother and Dad to send you that money, Auntie for the purpose of supplying me with a few extra parcels. You have been really very good to me in sending me cakes and sweets so frequently and I wish I could give you some idea how grateful I am to you for them and of the great pleasure they have given me. And now, several days ago I get a letter from Miss Williams, and now, it is followed by a parcel which I received safely a few days ago. I wrote a line to Miss Williams thanking her for her letter and parcel with which I was delighted. So you see, Aunt what with your parcels, Miss William’s parcel and the dose that I get from Home I do exceptionally well. My number of correspondents is also increasing. Through a cousin of mine in NZ Mit Fletcher of Wanganui, I have got in touch with a cousin of hers, a Miss Robinson of Southend on sea and she is writing to me and as Leslie Reynolds is writing to me regularly from London I have quite a lot of correspondence to attend to.
Concerning myself, I don’t think there is very much to say Auntie except that I am still alive and well and managing to carry on an existence in the Flanders mud. At present I am very fortunate in being well behind the lines in a rest camp, enjoying a bit of a spell and trying to do a little writing at the same time. I trust all is well with you and that trade is brisk in St Ives. Well it is time for me to lift the barrage now Auntie. Will write again soon. Please remember me to Mr and Mrs Lindner and all the kind people I met in St Ives. Yours Geoff
Pages
3 pages
Sender's address
France
Institutional No.
MS-Papers-0085-33
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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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