Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 497
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[Page 497]
No 26.
8 T.S.
Witney
8th July 18.
My own darling Mother & Father,
It is a long time since my last letter but I have been absolutely rushed off my feet lately – as I will tell you later – and I have been thwarted at every attempt to sit down & collect my thoughts!
Since then I have your letters up May 15th. I can well imagine what a joy it must have been to you to know that I was back in England a few days after you wrote those letters, especially as you were then getting my stories of my little adventures in France. When I read your dear letters I am so glad they sent me back just when they did. There is so much to tell and so little time to write at present that I must skip over most of the period since my last letter which was mostly a time of hard & rather thankless instructing work.
Last Saturday I went to London to meet Major Smith for dinner – he was my O.C. in France. On arriving in town about 3, I went to 5 Marble Arch & found Aunty Mary in. Bryan had been ordered to France and was with