Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 399
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what I expected, so I can't say I am very disappointed. At the same time Carmichael is not doing badly in his effort to bring back with him another thousand. He has got nine hundred already, so that he is sure to get a good deal over his number. But what is a thousand, when we ought to be sending a hundred thousand more?
I have written to Henry John, the secretary of the Stonyhurst War Memorial, sending him £20 towards it. They are asking for £20,000! Do you remember Fr. Herman Walmesley whom we called on in Rome, where he was English assistant to the General of the Jesuits. He wrote to Judge Heydon the other day, & sent a very kind message to me about dear Roger, & said he had said Masses for him. Fr. Walmesley has gone to Switzerland now. Fr. Cortie, the little fat chap who played in the cricket match at Stonyhurst with me, also wrote a very cheery note the other day & spoke of you & Roger, & said he had seen Auntie Mary in London last year. He told me to remember him to Fr. Gartlan & to ask him about the cabman who called him "a fat old priest", & that Fr. Gartlan would remember the occasion. I haven't sent on the message yet, but I will.
Percy Allan, the father of a boy who was killed, & of another who has, I think, won the Military Cross, sent me a very nice letter of congratulation on your Cross, & said that his boy had met you in London & that you were in great form. He has written to me before about you, & has given extracts from his son's letters about Roger & you, but the curious thing is that I don't remember having ever met him,