Series 03: Marie Rose Martin nee Livesey letters, 26 December 1911-22 November 1922 - Page 88
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[Page 88]
Summer Hill
Jurly,
Isle-of-Man
My dear Cousin
Just a teeny weeny note to thank you very much for your gift of remembrance of my birthday... Its quite a novelty bag with with its little birdies on the front... Just the thing for my bicycle - it will prove very useful.
My word we fairly are in the winter now! Its never ceased to freeze for the last two days & nights... Oh, how your Uncle is complaining.... his one lament is to be in Australia! By the way, father is getting quite stout again. You and Ellis would scarcely know him if you were to see him now, compared to what he was.
We've had ever such a busy time here lately... Just when we were in the midst of a heap of extra house work, we received word that the mill was coming to thresh the corn.... That business was no sooner over than Mrs Larkish - the woman we had in sewing at the time - was taken ill, and had to be packed off to bed. We had her here a fortnight sick with, above all things: erysipelas! What a mess she was in, head, face, neck and shoulder covered with wounds - which Marie had to dress several times daily...Thank goodness we got her to her home again last week-end!