Item 01: Oliver Hogue letters, November 1914-29 December 1915 - Page 73
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my correspondence to this weekly scroll, plus a few individual postcards, for we are getting very busy. The division is moving & we may have to fold tents & get any day. But you will see it in the papers long before my letters can reach you.
Quite the best news last week is the fact that I have had my portrait painted. May Chrystal would chuckle if she heard it). not a photo mind you but a real live water colour portrait by a prominent English artist & zoologist Miss Nellie Hadden. Already I have sent you some post cards with some sketches she did of Helwan. She came to the Camp to do some sketches & I made her path easy & she was over grateful.
She did a fine picture of the Camp with Col Ryrie in the foreground and myself just behind & she is sending it to the Royal Art Society for exhibition. You might stumble across it. Then she took a few snapshots of the Camp (some of which I sent to home & Mabel & Francie & Viva). Then she wanted to paint me and in spite of the natural timidity and bashfulness which distinguishes all the Hogues (liar) and despite my shrinking from fame and publicity (nother liar) I at last conceded.
The result is eminently satisfactory. I am sending the picture on by this mail. I hope you all like it. It shows my favorite horse "Herald" in the foreground, the camp in perspective &