Yes, sterilise the Teddy, he’ll not mind. He’s very good at Children’s Hour. I’ll have to learn to be good at that, too.
Nice little chat to you. You have guts, & you are a dear. Enclosed is £1 for the telephone calls. Or should I keep it. Yes I’d better. Pay the telephone by cheque. Heaven & Mr Lloyd help us.
Such a nice Sub I’ve dined & pictured with. Named David. About 20 & genuine R.N. Lives in Gloucestershire. Beautifully untidy is our room. The third member of the party is RNVR, full Lieutenant. Handsome & gay & unruffled, very nice, an architect. He’s building our house. I showed him the design. He puts it at £6000. We’re all writing letters & soon we’ll all go home together. Busy tomorrow, all of us. He’ll get his comic hair pin radio going for the midnight news, the sub. – David Smith ! Jolly & thick thatch hair, reddish face. Been on Destroyers ever since Dartmouth- very difficult to wake in the morning.
Your wonderful 1 & your spirit on the telephone has made it much easier for me. More than you know. Give Gwenny my love & the enclosed little note. Bless her heart. Post it on if she’s gone when this comes.
The odd Major with the sour grey face is still sticking stamps in his album. – made from an army book. Funny old world.
My job’s going to be all right, I’ll enjoy it.
If your job’s going to be all right, & if you’ll enjoy it then your job being all right will make my job all right & my job being all right will make your job be all right & all will be well. As you said so gaily, Whoopee.
My handwriting is dreadful. But I want to say so much
We’re a jolly crew, & a good crew, & you & Fitz & the Nurse & Dickie Anne are a gay crew. And above all & over all & through all & by all I love you, in every way. It shall in time be proved to you.
The stamp collecting Major has the M.C. !! But I bet he’d swap it for a Victoria Black !
Write to Rolf for me, 13 (3) Dunstable Rd, Wimbledon. No I’ll write some time. Tell him about the bairn when it comes. His address is in the address book. Peter & I had baths last night here.
If you fancy a different name when you see him-her, you can do as you wish. I’ll consider it the most handsome name of all whatever it is. It’ll make all names seem less good. Send cables re:- first smiles
first chuckles
first teeth
2nd teeth & so on and to 28.
You were wonderful just now. If you had not been so amazingly Mistress of yourself it would have been hard for me, and me is a railway station too ! Hell of a good show & a vast help. You are a dear. You are the dear of all.
After this letter there’ll be a pause. But I’ve you with me, & I’ll have, above all, one walk, the last river walk. That I’ll always have, the Ford, the sharp reed where we usually sat & 2, the other sit down, the haystack & the Home Straight. Candy perfected those walks & the Brave & Ferocious Bull.
God be with you, dearest one, be happy & have faith. All will be well, so very very well. Time is ours & the fullness thereof.
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