Letter from Harry Massey to Barbara Massey

59th Div School

Darling - I have just got your letter & I don't know what to say. I rather feel that doctor is talking tripe. Lisa had a large head rather than a small one, but it was by no means abnormal, & she certainly had no hydrocephalism at all. Then it does not seem to be at all certain that the baby was as they said - & even if it was, it surely does not establish a tendency to that. Look at Ma & Lily's children - & Jimmy Caldwell's. My father definitely said it was a chance in thousands & would not happen again. I hope you

will see a specialist very soon & that he will set our minds at rest. It is awful to have these dreadful worries & thoughts on top of the agony of missing Lisa - & be separated from you as well. I just hate to have any spare time nowadays - & when I go out with these fellows here- I enjoy myself & laugh & joke for 1/2 hour or an hour - & then something always happens to remind me again.

It is [passing?] with rain this afternoon & the weather is very mild. If only we could have had this sort of weather

in January.

I will do my best to get all the things you want from the bags & trunks. As you say, it will be quite a job but I suspect I will get them all.

I'll stop now darling - I have some more letters to write.

I love you so very deeply, darling

Harry.

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Mrs. H. Massey c/o Mrs. H. G M Phillips. 2, Warren fields, Stanmore, Middlesex.