Item 01: James Wilkie letters, ca. 1914-1918 - Page 53
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21st August 1917
Dear Mrs. John,
Received your very welcome letter No. 58 of 28th May yesterday. I feel so sick about not your not getting my letters, what is a fellow to do. I don't know. I made up my mind I'd send a cable today anyhow, then I got up this morning to find your cable here about Jim McLean. Thanks for letting me know. It was a rotten shock, I haven't sort of quite realized it yet although I have been able to think of nothing else. And it will be absolutely awful for Isabel, I shall have to write to her & I don't know how I'm going to do it. I can't help thinking its so unjust & unfair & really its hard to understand why these things happen. Only three weeks ago I got a great little letter from him & we had had such plans for the future, the spell I was going to have at Bringagee & the yarns over the Fire after the others went to Bed. I don't think I'll ever want to go to Bringagee again now. Was Jim ill long? I suppose it will be ages before I get any letters.
I'm hating everything today, fancy after waiting for