State Library of NSW
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No 76 €‹1. "Valines' €‹Nr. Abbéville
14/12/18
Dear Mother
Many thanks for the bon Xmas cake which arrived in very good order the other day. I will just tell you under what circumstances we ate it.
Imagine eight of us sitting round a table in the kitchen of a French cottage with Madame & her daughter.
After a good roast meal I produced the cake & they opened their eyes. It was a beauty & Madame kept some of it for a couple of her friends who came in later.
A couple of days ago we shipped here from Neuville a distance of 14 miles & are well dug in again. We have struck a good place - grocers shop this time. We sleep in the barns with plenty of straw & dine with Madame & her daughter. They do all our cooking & the washing up & we
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