Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 284
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payment for his civilian clothes he will have drawn from me about £40, & I have paid about £14 more on his mother's account. He has paid £4 or £5 to his mother also. This leaves about £65 still with me, & no doubt he thought he could get some of this out of me for his honeymoon, but he wasn't game to ask me, & I made no offer, so there matters stand for the present. Of course, the money is his, and I shall give it to him, but I don't feel very enthusiastic at the prospect, as unless he develops into a hard working fellow I don't know how he is going to support a wife as well as himself in the future. He says he is going to join a man named A.R. Hall in making or selling shirts or blouses or something of the sort. I suggested it might be wise to make an income at the game first, & marry afterwards, but he thought otherwise.
I gathered from him that Constance is going to live with him & his wife, & that she intends to go through a course of training in massage. One thing seems certain, & that is that she has left Perth, & intends that her brother & sisters there can look after themselves for a bit, if not altogether. She has not told us what