Airgraph 1943-11-28 Edith to Murray (letter 16)
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| Title: | Airgraph 1943-11-28 Edith to Murray (letter 16) |
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| Identifier: | archives.org.au/Airgraph_1943-11-28_Edith_to_Murray_(letter_16) |
| Parent item: | Wilson family airgraphs |
| Storage location: | H.M. Wilson Archives/Folder 2 (sort key: 137 ← Previous Next →) |
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| Authors: | Edith Olive Wilson (née Hall) |
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| License: |  This work is free of known copyright restrictions.
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| Related people: | William Murray Wilson · Edith Olive Wilson (née Hall) |
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| Keywords: | H.M. Wilson Archives |
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Mrs J.H. Wilson 98 Herbert Rd Shenton Park WA
Nov 38th 1943
No 16. Page 1.
My dear Murray,
By the time this reaches you dear, you will have had notice that the cash is waiting for you at the bank, they said that they had to send it to Cairo, & they would arrange from there. Jean said she wanted to send you £5 & suggested that if sent it altogheter it would be a good idea, so that is how it came to be £15. So I [illegible] her to send you a cable to that effect & I sent you one also, I wanted your to know that I had had airgraphs but they said they only had the number for the single a/g. I had 3 pages he afternoon after I had posted 3 pages to you in the morning. 7 & 8 from you, then this week I had Sept 4 from you, very much delayed, postmarked Sept 19th & not received until Nov 26th but I was glad to get it dear, with your wishes for my birthday, which now seems so long ago, & glad to know that the papers are reaching you. The [illegible] was an old one I found here. I must let you have Rae's new address, it is NWX3473 Sr R Wilson 115 AGH Heidelberg Vic, she has 3 pips [illegible] now, since last may it is grand for her to be posted there, where she will see so many of her friends & relations. She certainly knows a great deal, but it will have to wait until after the war. She tells very little, I heard a great deal more from other people, but she was the same when she returned from M.E. & we all respect her ways, & do not worry her with questions, but I was glad to have her here & to be able to give her some comforts & attention. She looked wonderfully well when she had to move on, & of course had another week in father's home town, to break the journey if she had to return, which she did not do. She is in a lovely ?? & should be very happy there, she wrote over for her tennis smock & shoes which I have sent. She hopes to be able to take it up again, & with Pat & Joan, & Mary Shepherd besides heaps of other friends; & Sherbrooke always is only too glad to welcome her & her friends. She should have a much [illegible] life now after [illegible] years of hard living conditions. Cont.
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No 16. Page 2.
Thank you so much dear for the parcel which is on the way. I am sure that I shall like the housecoat very much, if was good of you to send it to me. Mind you pay for the pouffe out of the money I have sent & then keep the rest for yourself dear, you have sent so much already which you know I greatly appreciate. I am thankful that you are well now & hope that you will nto have any more set backs and I am very ?? that you should use such a superstitious express as 'touch wood', when you howled us down for a little harmless enterntainment, you forget thta our family motto 'Jacta est alia' — 'the die is cast', & I believe that what is to be, will be, so there my lad.
Margaret is returning[?] home this afternoon, & she & Judith & Cousin Helen are calling in here, so I must go out & see if I can pick some roses for them. They have taken a new lease of life after the hot spree we had last month, & the lovely rain of last week, but I miss my lovely sea-gulls, there are quite a lot of snails in the garden, altho' I am always after them, I think I shall hvae to buy some gulls, seeming that I cannot go to Rottnest & get some. When we had the gulls we never saw even a worm, & they cleaned up the aphis[?] as far as they could reach. The chooks are still doing a good job always 2 eggs & sometimes three. The girls are both very [illegible] & have even so many chickens, coming on of course it means a good deal of extra work in looking after them, but they are most profitable. We let the chooks out in the top cud[?] of the garden [illegible] we wait until they have laid before letting them out.
Dorothy & George Beard had a lovely time at the cottage, he went out in a launch each day & they had heaps of fish, on Wednesday he has to report again & probably go away, so on Friday Dorothy & I are going down for a week. I want to go thro the place before letting it on Dec 12th so may as well have a week there — must away now fondest love [illegible] take care yourself
Your ever loving Mother
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