Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 418
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various scraps up to the time of your departure, on leave, for England, & then your visit to Fowey in Cornwall with Auntie Mary, & Mary, Bryan & Maurice. Poor Maurice seems to have had a particularly rotten time since he was first wounded, & even in the wedding group he looks a bit tucked up.
Your accounts of your airfights, & particularly the one with von Richtofen's Circus, are simply splendid. We were up at the Jim Thompson's at Killara for supper on last Sunday night, & we brought them typed copies of your accounts of your fights as we know they would be most interested, & they were. So much so that today (Wednesday) we haven't yet got them back. They told us that Theo had brought down three Huns up to date, so that he is beginning to do well in spite of his occasional smashes. He has been in hospital, wounded, after one of his scraps, but is getting all right again.
Dick Clive has just been here for a couple of hours after dinner & has just gone, so I am back again to my letter writing. He & his wife & three infants have just come to Sydney, after practically winding up their affairs in Tasmania. He is going on with the rest of them to Collaroy next week for a few weeks & then he is going to England to look after his affairs & then I think to offer himself for any war work that may be going. Meantime his wife and children will stay in Sydney in a flat. Talking of flats reminds me that Eileen is giving herself no end of hard work trying to get a suitable flat for herself & Peter, & she hasn't got one to her liking yet. She goes off, full of hopes, nearly every day, & returns