Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 243
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Cranbrook Cottage
Double Bay
Edgecliff
17th December 7
My dear Geoffrey,
There is an American Mail on Wednesday. This is Monday night, but as I have to be "on the stump" tomorrow night in the middle of the Corso at Manly I am trying to get ahead a bit with my letter to you. My last two letters to you were dated 27th November and 2nd December. There has been no mail in between. Your last letter to us is No 6, dated from Rendcomb on 24th October. The previous one was No 5, dated 16th October. I think we got No. 5 (with the news that you were likely to go back soon to France) after No 6 in which you mention you had got Mother's Nos. 6, 7,13 & mine of 7th Septr. which was not numbered.
Mother also got a charming letter from Mrs. Vidal, in which she said that she always feels that when God made you, He made something very good, & that you are a dear boy, quite unspoilt, & that she loved to have you sitting on the floor by the fire, tasting – as you said – a little bit of home. We were greatly touched by her kindness to you, & also to us in writing to Mother of you, & Mother is writing to her by this mail.
We have had a cable from you that you had no news yet of orders to go overseas, & you mention in your last letter that there has been some trouble about replacing you in your old squadron. The cablegram came from Beaulieu, near Portsmouth, so you have evidently been moved from your friends at Rendcomb. Your last letter also had a lot of snaps taken by you at Oxford of Mitchell, Pethybridge, Sanders, Buswell, & "Girlie", & sometimes of yourself taken by someone else. We don't like the "one in the gas mask" the best this time.