Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 277
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some ways, while cheerfully risking death at times?
Today is the anniversary of the beginning of our "Wonderful Year"! Do you remember, we left Sydney on 28th January 1911 in that splendid year when we were all together in Europe, & which we all felt was a time which we could never hope to have again. Just the four of us together as chums, wandering all over the world! I often felt that for Mother & me at least we could never hope to have you two dear boys with us again in the same way, & that it would always be the brightest time of our lives, and so indeed it was. Perhaps in years to come you may have another such a time. Please God you may!
Eileen & Peter are still at Leura. We are seriously thinking of paying them a visit for a day soon. Peter's birthday is on Monday next, 4th February. Meanwhile we are putting in time here at Manly, & though this hotel had a bad reputation for noisiness & general fast living, it is now so eminently respectable that some of the old crowd complain that it is full of "wowsers".
Parliament opened again this afternoon (29th January), & the usual motion of censure is coming on, but in our House nothing of interest will come on for weeks. Did I tell you that Dr. Frank Wall M.L.C. who was in my opinion George Mullins's evil genius at Randwick Hospital, has been "sacked" as well as George & the P.M.O. Stokes.
Mrs. Toohey is preparing to leave Innisfail for good, & curiously enough she has taken Dr. George Armstrong's house in Greenknowe Avenue, Potts Point. Armstrong is the man who has bought Innisfail, so they are just changing houses. She is very fidgetty about various small things connected with the