Series 03: Marie Rose Martin nee Livesey letters, 26 December 1911-22 November 1922 - Page 12
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[Page 12]
Athol Hotel
November 6th 1914
Dear Cousin Harry/
Many thanks for your interesting letter. I feel quite ashamed to think I have not written to you for such a long time, but I know you will forgive me when I tell you that not being so well lately, writing, and everything, has been rather a strain upon me.
We were pleased to hear that you were all keeping reasonably well. What are you doing with a pain in your back at 24 years of age, I'm sure I don't know! You really will have to take more care of yourself. A sporting life is all very well, but one can't play tricks with one's human structure without paying the toll; possibly you are beginning to understand that.
You ask if the war as effected us very much - well up to the present, not personally! Of cause it has made a difference in the country, and in many ways touched the Island. We have a "detention camp" already filled with several thousand aliens, not more than a mile and a half from the 'Athol". And another camp is being prepared to hold eight thousand, just outside the town of Peel, which is extreme