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Letter No. 61 Sunday. 20. July Major. J. H. Massey
6 Palestinian Coy, The Buffs
Middle East Forces

My darling one-
Its really a tricky technique letters
& these things, when there is so much difference
in the timeit takes them to make the
journey. I posted a long letter yesterday, &
also put in it some things which you
will want to know as quickly as possible. I
must control myself to keep all urgen
matters for these - but I feel so thrilled when
I have had a letter or p.c. from you, & I
just began a letter at once & put everything
into it. I think I will give up Airgraphs as
a regular thing, just use one if & when
necessary, & as an overflow to these. As I
told you in my letter, I had four pcs. from
you on Friday, the latest July 1st , it was
really wonderful to hear how well you are
& of Max's steady progress. How I long
to see you both. And I was reassured to
know that Noss Mayo is 12 miels from
Plymouth. But when you first sent on
your new address it just said Plymouth,
and not even "near Plymouth" - & I have heard
so much about the Plymouth blitz. I
wonder how near the sea it is, when you
talk of bathing - or whether this refers to
the river. I am now quite brown, & 100%
all over too, on account of using no
bathing shorts - so I have white band
round the middle & it is not easy.

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to say just how brown I am.
And I told you in my letters, not to
bother any more about the trousers - I
will manage alright without them.
And David Max, darling - I like those
names, don't you.
It was Ben Amis birthday yesterday - so I went
out with him - we went to that place
Prosse, where the food is so good & had
some marvellous liver bacon & onions. And
then we went to see "Wuthering Heights,"
which we saw before together. It really is
a very wonderful film & the acting is so
magnificent, sincere. I had a cry & was
dying to be able to reach out my hand to
hold yours. We must always hold hands
when we go to the cinema, darling, & I
waned even favour you leaning your head
on my bosom & me putting an arm round
you. Ben & I then went to a
dreadful cabaret place, to meet Arkin
, his wife, some friends - where a
small whiskey costs 2/6, & a pint bottle
of beer 3/6. The friends asked me to go
& see them, but I have no intention of
doing so. I very much prefer my lonely
life - it is such a waste of time & so
fully boring to have to go out & talk
about nothing in particular.
Solomon, my new 2 i/c is, I really