Item 02: Alan Fraser Fry letters, ca. 1900-1916 - Page 47

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Dene Gully
Saturday. 4.6.15.

My dear old Alan,
Your letter has just come & we are so disappointed that you are not to be home for dinner tomorrow.

Each day since you wrote we have been hoping for a wire to say you were coming. I am so sorry I didn't do what I wanted to do after your first letter – wire you some money but Father said perhaps you would be on your way home. I shall wire it on Tuesday morning – Monday is a holiday alas!

Your last instalment for Dene is here & we are expecting him tomorrow so that he can leave an order for me to get that too. I intend running down to see if Uncle Jim is home this week end & ask him what can be done to get you off for a few days. He goes about the 7th so perhaps you may go on his boat – they say he is to go in command but I don't know definitely.

There are ever so many letters here for you, I will send Dene's & Una's & wait to send the others.

Uncle Jim is going in the Ceramic and is Major of 19th Battalion, 2nd Company.

[The following text is written along the left-hand margin:]
Hazel is better – your letters in Egypt will have all the home news & I sent for some socks – will Tommie get your letters for you? All the girls have been