Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 148
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prevent him from making her a birthday or Christmas present whenever he felt so inclined. I don't know if I told you this before, but anyway I should like you to know, but not for publication.
Dick Clive has gone back to Hobart, leaving his wife & family at Collaroy, but I understand he will be back here again in a few weeks. I hear he is cooling on his great scheme of building a big house to live in in Tasmania, & he is far more likely to sell out there, and settle somewhere in N.S.W. He will find out in time that even £40,000 is not huge enough to make too many experiments with, and that if he is careful to invest it well he will find himself not enormously rich with a couple of thousand a year. He is a very decent sort of fellow, & Eileen & Roger liked him very much indeed, & I hope to know him better later on.
After talking so much about money, I want to know, before I leave the subject, how you are getting along, & whether we are allowing you enough for all your requirements. I know that you will say you have heaps, but please, Geoffrey dear, tell your old Daddy the very truth, & if you want a little more.
If you are near the end of your letter of credit also, let me know and I shall get you another. I want you to have a good safe margin for contingencies, especially as I have been drawing on you for a wedding present for Eileen Toohey, and I shall be doing the same for Cecily Hughes. I suppose if your present & ours run to say £25 between them it will give you plenty of margin, & when the time comes buy something for us from £10 to £15, & buy a present from yourself with the balance, & draw on your