Series 03: Marie Rose Martin nee Livesey letters, 26 December 1911-22 November 1922 - Page 67
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Our Peggie has got a most beautiful kitten. We saved just one out of her last increase - & she's just as pleased as a bear with two heads. Turk & Rex are to the fore as usual - though the Parson was out with the trap a while ago & let the pony step on Rex and break a fore-leg. Poor old Rex now hops around on three [indecipherable]!...
We've had such a lot of letters, books four in number, & other odds & ends from you lately. Many thanks. We are pleased to hear from you but I really think it would be as well if you wrote me just a few the less. No one would think of asking me the contents if I did not choose to tell, we are not given to probing into one anothers affairs here, but looks are exchanged when I conceal anything & I'm not used to it... have [indecipherable] to been above such things, in fact.
Please dont send much in the way of presents, Harry. I really would much rather you did not. In a former letter I've expressed myself on the subject more fully, and, Harry, I really mean what I said.
As to the sentimental strain in you letters, Harry, there is little I have to say... You are my