Item 01: James Wilkie letters, ca. 1914-1918 - Page 150
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I missed Stuart Bowman, my usual clumsy bungling I'm afraid. I went & had lunch with his mother one day, they were very nice. Stewart wrote me a note & fairly roused on me. I deserved it but really the first few days in London I simply grumped.
Anyhow I had another quick run back, I first looked for these people & found them miles ahead of where I'd left them but as they had left all my books &c. back at the old possi I went back & finished up. Took me a week, very quiet only one other chap there, I would be out all day & working half the night, I was glad to come here today.
Weather simply brutal, snowstorms and blizzards, wind & rain. One fine mildish day & then hail &c. again. It does get on your nerves. The country up here is great, quite green & fresh & comparitively unharmed. The villages are of course are mere rubbish heaps, you'd laugh to see where we live.
Things are going very well. I'm moving ahead tomorrow. I suppose I'm silly as I don't have to & it will be very noisy but I do love being sort of in things & it will be much handier to visit