Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 491
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[Page 491]
Cranbrook Cottage
Double Bay, Edgecliff, Sydney
25th June 1918
My dear Geoffrey
There is a mail going to America tomorrow so that although there is little news to give you since my last letter of 21st June, here goes!
Dick Clive went off, so you ought to cross his tracks in England soon. The Roger Forrest Hughes family are still at Collaroy, so that Mother & I are losing interest in advertisements of flats to let as Eileen is not here to look at them. Yesterday was a public holiday in honour of the birthday of that poor little Prince of Wales, whose portrait you see in the illustrated papers. Considerîng that we had a public holiday in honour of his father's birthday on the 3rd of the month this sort of business is rather overdone in Australia. In England it is hard to find anybody who is sure of the date even of the King's birthday, but as for that of the Prince of Wales they never heard of it! However as there was no work