Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 552
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Parliament N.S. Wales
Cranbrook Cottage
Double Bay, Sydney
17th September 1918.
My dear Geoffrey
Your last three letters, Nos. 26, 27, & 28, reached us in a batch last week, & also the packet of your photographs (by yourself & with Bryan). We like them very much, & we think the ones of you both together are excellent. Poor old Bryan had sent us one of them, & we had to lend it to the newspapers for reproduction, & it was not improved when we got it back again, so that we were very glad to get the five you sent us, but which took a month longer to reach us. We are giving one each to John, James, Auntie Jeannie, Eileen, & the office, & that leaves one for ourselves at home.
Your strenuous time at Witney made most interesting reading, and I can quite appreciate your feelings when you felt that in spite of the rotten job it was in the beginning you would have liked to have seen it through to the end. It is a good thing that you have that spirit of loving a fight against odds. Certainly no fight is so exhilarating, and it develops all that is best in a man. I hope you like your new job as Wing Examiner which certainly promises to be less of a grind, though, as you say, you can make of it what you wish. I am quite sure you will make a good deal of it all the same. It is a good thing to be well thought of by your senior officers, but of course we think that they ought to have made a General of you by this time. We love to hear of all your work. By the