Letter from Harry Massey to Barbara Massey

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Letter written by Harry Massey to Barbara Massey.

This is a scanned version of the original image in Special Collections and Archives at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.



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GARRISON MEWS, PARK HALL, OSWESTRY, SALOP.

Monday.

Darling sweetheart,

I have just received your wire - & I really don't blame you at all for not coming up here. It is so unutterably painful saying goodbye - then you would have to trail back to London by yourself. And it would not be very happy here - we have to be in all day. And for some reason they do not allow officers to sleep out.

And it is still entirely uncertain when we shall leave, but I hope it will be soon.

We had an interview with the Adjutant again this morning & he still knows nothing at all.

I did not write to you yesterday darling. There was no fresh news & nothing to

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write about and I just felt very miserable.

So I spent the day reading all the newspapers & wrote letters to the Chairman & Birchall & Frost, & my mother, & Pop & Leslie Abel. And then in the evening we went a Ensa concert at the Garrison Theatre here - which was very good.

This place is one of those hutted camps & is very finely appointed - except for being damned cold, because they cannot draw fuel until Dec 1st. The other & bigger snag is that as furniture etc is provided, we cannot draw Field Allowance @ 2/- a day. Or so the Adjutant says, but we are going further into this.

There are nine other officers here on this same job & they are all quite pleasant chaps - & we all have beers together & chat in a friendly manner.

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I wish now I had brought my dressing gown & I have also left my flask behind somewhere. So could you please send these on to me. They had better be very securely parcelled, in case I have gone & they have to be sent on after me.

In addition to my name & address here, you had better put - Draft Serial R M H C R. And I am hoping to get your photograph. I enclose the receipt, which I must have picked up off the dressing table.

About P.R's I had :-

2 pairs shorts 1-13-0 1 pair puttees 10-0 1 Topee......... ? 2 Ties 5-0 3 pairs socks...?

and that was all I had by way of clothes. I had also a camp bed : 42/6- & the hold-all @ £4.

all the other stuff was returned.

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I enclose Allquist's receipt - showing the amount now owing. And I enclose Cole's bill - to which will be to add some alterations. But of these he must not charge for enlarging the woollen shirts, because he made these too small in the first place.

Well darling - thats about all for today. I do hope I have a letter from you in the morning.

And darling - do be careful in these air raids. I love you very very deeply & I would not know what to do if anything happened to you.

Goodbye dearest sweetheart.

I will write tomorrow - All my love & kisses.

Harry.

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Postmark Oswestry 16 SEP 1940

Mrs H Massey, Stanmore

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