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Camp Tel. No. Little Budworth 46 (Make it personal - if you want me)
Stoneleigh Thursday
Sweetest darling -
I do hope that you do not feel that I am neglecting you, because I think about you so much, but this week I just do not seem to have been able to sit down & write a letter. On the 'phone on Sunday, I I felt rather damped, but it was nobody's fault. I should have been quicker to realise how you were feeling. But I thought I had found a good place for you. I really & truly do realise now, why you prefer to have a caravan. It was lovely to talk to you last night & to hear that you come up about next Thursday.
You are having an awful time at the moment , with injections, & your throat cut, & your eyes. I do hope you do not mind having to wear glasses for reading - you know I do not - & you must know by now that I think you are perfect & wonderful, whatever you do, or wear, except when you do not love me enough. But I do hope it will not be for very long.
The caravan is all fixed up, & I went to see the people yesterday. It amounts to a bit of a gamble for being there a few months, but the showers are on - & I have a get out up to May 31st. It is very pleasant & comfortable - double thickness walls - & well furnished - & a double bed & a single bed - & gas lighting, heating & cooking. It is entirely fitted except for bed linen & blankets & towels etc. I haven't asked my mother, because I imagine the Aunts will have taken most of it. So
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could you bring the necessary stuff? I have found what I think is a nice farm, with a nice kind farmer - who will supply eggs & milk & water etc. He has some pleasant fields - all overlooking a mere. And Little Budworth is a pretty little village. I do hope you feel pleased about it all. I do.
The Court Martial was today. The man was found guilty, which was pretty well inevitable - & was awarded (subject to Divisional confirmation) - 28 days - in detention prison. In the last case, the man was given 70 days - so this one has fared much better. Funnily enough - I was apparently quite good - & afterwards was asked if I was a barrister in civil life - & was told that I nearly brought tears to their eyes. Well - I always did enjoy a bit of praise, as you well know.
But perhaps the most satisfactory part of it was afterwards when the accused man said he would never know how to repay me for what I had done for him.
The P.M.C racket still goes on - & I am off to Oulton Park again in the morning.
Mrs Read has asked me for Sunday - to meet Colonel Sampson - Leslie Abel is taking me in his car & coming too. I shall take the Colonel in a corner & remain very, very sober to do so.
And now I must go - but will write you full particulars in a day or so, about trains & meeting after. It will almost certainly be same one as before - was it 1-30 pm? Pattie will meet you. All my love - sweet darling one. Harry.
