Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 559
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like to see it.
Eileen & Peter have been with us for the past two or three weeks, & today we were helping her to choose furniture for the flat she has taken in one of the Macleay Villas in Roslyn Gardens, Elizabeth Bay. Peter is a joy to us, & he grows more or more like Roger every day. Nellie Clive & her children are already in occupation of a corresponding flat, close to Eileen's.
I don't want you to talk of John Hughes's affairs but he seems to be in as great a mess as ever. Recently there was a bankruptcy summons issued against him by a bookmaker named Baker, but it seems to have been kept out of the papers, though it appeared in one of the trade journals & was shown to me & no doubt to others. James tells me of things in which he tries to help, but John calls here occasionally & discusses matters in general, but never mentions his own affairs. He was here with two of his children about a week ago. I am afraid nothing will change him, though I still hope that Bryan's death may steady him. The trouble is that his old scores are still unsettled.
I enclose a few cards I had done as a memorial of Bryan. John & James have a lot. I sent James a packet on Sunday, so I am sure he will send plenty to his mother & sisters, but for fear of accidents I enclose half a dozen. John & James preferred them in the style of Roger's, & we lent the block of the Crucifixion for the back.
Mother is still writing letters, and I must send her to bed, so goodnight, Geoffrey dear, & heaps of love from
Your loving father
Thomas Hughes