p.

2.

of the doors & windows which fit about as well as
those reach - no 4 dozen suits you used to want me to buy.
The roof is just suspended over the top of the walls
not fixed on at all & so the wind just comes
straight through But I suppose my lot
is a comparatively good due, I do get
3/0 per day Field Alowance.

[image: handrawn house with rooftop not touching the walls, indicating 8" opening)

I set out not to do at the beginning of this letter
but seeing I cannot help it. If only I could see
you & Maxie just once every few weeks - what
a difference, it would make.

Hanging on for a reply to my application is also very
wearing. It is now over 3 weeks since I wrote
my letter by all calculations, the reply, if any,
should be any day now. It is also 3 weeks since
I had a letter from you & my mind seems to
be full of nothing else. And perhaps because
of these things, I seem to have lost interest
& enthusiasm in everything. I seem to take
things so seriously & heavily my letters to you are
perfected. And I seem to have lost the art of
just chatting along to you in my letters.
But there is this one all important thing in
my mind all the time & nothing else matters.
Since the answer which I receive is a
sickening negative you will have had my
No first. I'm afraid you will find my ranting
& grumblings rather boring- But I cannot

2.

of the doors & windows which fit about as well as
those reach - no 4 dozen suits you used to want me to buy.
The roof is just suspended over the top of the walls
not fixed on at all & so the wind just comes
straight through But I suppose my
is a comparatively good due, I do get
3/0 per day Field Alowance.

[image: handrawn house with rooftop not touching the walls, indicating 8" opening)

I set out not to do at the beginning of this letter
but seeing I cannot help it. If only I could see
you & Maxie just once every few weeks - what
a difference, it would make.

Hanging on for a reply to my application is also very
wearing. It is now over 3 weeks since I wrote
my letter by all calculations, the reply, if any,
should be any day now. It is also 3 weeks since
I had a letter from you & my mind seems to
be full of nothing else. And perhaps because
of these things, I seem to have lost interest
& enthusiasm in everything. I seem to take
things so seriously & heavily my letters to you are
perfected. And I seem to have lost the art of
just chatting along to you in my letters.
But there is this one all important thing in
my mind all the time & nothing else matters.
Since the answer which I receive is a
sickening negative you will have had my
No first. I'm afraid you will find my ranting
& gramblings rather boring- But I cannot