Item 01: James Wilkie letters, ca. 1914-1918 - Page 127
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[Page 127]
these mails going to Davy Jones locker one gets so discouraged, it seems so useless to go pouring out stuff for nothing. But if you felt like that & didn't write where would we be. So I go on. I see you have had strikes & things. I'm sorry for you. So much inconvenience & annoyance. Really one does get impatient & exasperated with the brutes. I really don't know whats coming to the world. (Usual cry of the old & out of date.) I hope you haven't been sending anything lately, there have been some whole mails lost. This isn't a hint. Only please don't send any more. I hate to think of you working away, making your eyes ache & then for it to be all for nowt. Just write to me now when you can & when you feel like it. I hope you haven't sent the MSC [manuscript ?] of the romance & that it hasn't gone down. I've felt so bumpy all today, one gets so fed up. The weather is really pestiferous to a degree, the whole district is a very messy & dirty bog. It rains every day & every night.
The skeeters are quite prime ones & love me. I have seen Joe Kirby again, I hear he has been recommended for the Military Cross. I hope so.