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Capt J. H. Massey.
6th Palestinian Coy. The Buffs
Middle East Forces

Letter no 27

25 Mar 41

Darling Sweetheart
Another letter today - your no 19 of Dec 24 & 25,
& this time posted by sea mail, so it has taken exactly 3 months
to get here. I now feel that anything may arrive, any day, your
current ones by air mail, which seems to be coming along in
fairly normal sequence - & all the missing ones, some by
sea mail, & some to that awful address, & some combining
the two disadvantages. It seems foolish, in a way, to attempt
to answer a letter three months old, which will be 4 1/2 - 5
months old when this one reaches you. But I am compelled
to say some things, because it is the first letter I
have had from you which directly answers questions
mine, about whether you love me, & wanting to know
if I have made you happy, & if you have left yourself to
be appreciated by me. Your answers are so completely
mavellous & satisfactory & warm hearted towards me, that I
must answer you again. What you said in your letter has
made me feel so happy today - & much more than that
darling. It has given me a deep, wonderful feeling of exhiliration
& security & contentment & achievement too. And a passionate
yearning to come home too you, & put an end, forever to
this horrible & heartbreaking waste of time of being separated
from you. It is lovely, my darling, that we have both been
feeling the same things, as our first letters to each other have
shown. And now comes your letter answering one of mine.
There is no shadow of doubt that we have been quite wonderfully
happy with each other. And I feel so strongly that there is equally