Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 223
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Roger's boy, Peter, has won all our hearts with his dear little ways. He is so bright, & jolly, & so quick to imitate sounds. Of course there never was such a baby since you & Roger & Tom. On Sunday Mr & Mrs Maher were here & they are just as devoted admirers of Peter as any of us. Tonight I was greatly disappointed to find him asleep when I got home.
We got such a splendid lot of letters from you the other day, – no less than six, dated 13th, 16th, & 25th September, & 1st, 4th, & 9th October, with accounts of your departure from Oxford & all your early adventures at Rendcomb. The Sergeant Mechanic who refused to go up with you in the B.E.8 certainly struck trouble, or as we used to say – "sot on a stalagmite". You must be a great old hustler, & these slackers must have developed a healthy respect for you long before you get this reply.
As for yourself we are both very glad that you are getting to know some decent people in the neighbourhood of Rendcomb as it will make life much more tolerable for you. And I am glad too that you are getting on to a better type of machine in the Bristol Fighter.
Brendan Gavan Duffy, who has been back to his people on leave for three weeks, was here the other day & he said he knew the Bristol Fighters well. He has had a couple of years as a gunner in the 5th Australian Battery, & he seems very much fed up with the whole business though he says he is going back again. He seems rather depressed about it all, as he has had a very rotten time, & the deaths of Desmond & Jack, his brothers, have rather upset him. He is going to try a commission before going back.
Leonard my old accountant, sent the boys & girls in the office a piece of his