Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 262
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Parliament N.S.Wales
P.S.
We bought sweets for all the Mullins girls, & presented them from you, as you asked. We shall love to get some day the boss of one of your propellers as a tobacco jar, which you say you are keeping for us.
Cranbrook Cottage
Double Bay
Edgecliff
Sydney, 28th Decr. 1917.
My dear Geoffrey,
Your last letter (No. 7) dated 1st November came in the "Niagara" (with Mrs. Toohey) & we got it on Christmas Eve. Your Christmas greetings by cablegram from Rugby reached us on the 27th, yesterday. I can't tell you how glad we were to get it, because from your last letter & from your cablegram from Beaulieu on 29th November we thought you might have gone across to France, as you said you were likely to do. Don't worry whether you go early or late, or whether you go at all. God knows best, & as you have said before, we are all in His hands. Just do your duty with all your might as you have always done, and leave the rest to Him, & whatever comes we shall all try to bear it bravely for your sake. We know you don't want to worry us by going into danger, but after all, Geoffrey dear, you are always in danger in the air, whether in England or France, and we must only steel our hearts, and pray that our only dear son left to us may be spared to us. So don't worry any more on our accounts. Just keep pegging away at whatever comes to your hand, and do it as you always have done, as well as you can, & whether you are kept in England or not, always remember you are doing