Item 01: James Wilkie letters, ca. 1914-1918 - Page 5
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23-7-16
Dear Mrs. Jack,
You'll be thinking I'm a pig but we haven't been allowed to write for a week or so & even now this is a chance shot but I hope it will get through. I have been terribly busy too & we have been on the move & under those circumstances I never get a minutes peace. I hate moving, really at such times I wouldn't mind being dead but I pick up again. I'm sure if I ever get back I'll need explosives under me to shift me when I have to shift.
I'm very homesick today. Chancellor sent me a lot of snaps of Tog & they made me very chokey, I wanted to crawl away in a quiet corner. They are such good snaps of the dear old place, the river & the punt & the old cottage & the garden & one of the dining room with the pink shades on the lamp. Also one of the tennis court with Mac & the boys. And your letter came too with the snap of you all at Hay & made it worse. And its Sunday afternoon & it just made me think of Sunday afternoons, those deliciously lazy Sunday afternoons at Tog where we all did as we liked & mostly loafed after & before good meals. The meals I could do with a few of those meals now. Our fodder
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My love to Nerida. And I'm most annoyed at your saying or suggesting I was loose. Why, my dear -- We'll have to thresh that out later. So long.