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Major J. H. Massey, 6 Palestine Coy, The Buffs, M.E. F.

Letter No. 72. Thursday 18 Sept 41

My own darling -

I am not really writing a letter to you tonight - it is 11 o'clock & I am sleepy. But your letters 48 & 51 - missing - turned up yesterday, & I have just been re-reading them, & I want to get another letter under way. And so I am doing that, no more & saying goodnight to you. God bless you darling H. xxx

Friday - 19 Sept. Your first two A.Gs arrived today - dated 19th & 24th August, so they are much the same speed as p.cs. But it was lovely to have them & they are of course easily legible. I also had my first letter to arrive from Frank Stanier. He had just heard about Max & sounded very pleased. He seems to be working v hard & not very happy. Miss Wrexham appears to have rather fallen through - & his frightful wife not to have fallen through at all. I think we have made a friend for life in Frank, & that after the war he will be popping up to see us at all sorts of odd times: I hope he won't become a nuisance. But he was a very good friend to me & to both of us, in the 5th - even though he did get me into a bit of a mess because of his hankering for young female company! I also had a wonderful piece of news from Eric James - Frank Macaskie is not dead, but wounded & a prisoner of war. I had always hoped for this possibility & wrote the Red Cross organisation for news some time ago, but have had no reply so far. I replied to Eric's letter last week, & told him about Frank & what I had heard. He made enquiries in Cairo & that was what he found out & he let me