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Letter from Olive Duffin to her brother Charles Edmund Duffin, 6 December 1915

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

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<address>T. West Cliff:</address>   
<date>Tuesday 6. 1915</date>                                                                               
<salute>My dear Edmund,</salute> 
<p>I was very glad to hear from
<lb/>you &amp; don't deserve it for I know I've not
<lb/>written to you for ages, there seems so little of
<lb/>interest here to tell. I'm just longing to get home
<lb/>for a bit &amp; looking forward very much to seeing
<lb/>Dorothy to.morrow. I hope she <unclear>not</unclear> be very ill <gap/>
<lb/>it has been <gap/> pretty stiff here all day &amp;
<lb/>raining too. I was in town on Sat: having 
<lb/>gone up to meet &amp; escort <gap/> <gap/> <gap/>
<lb/><unclear>here.</unclear> I met Celia for about 1/2 hour, she seems all
<lb/>right &amp; is pleased that she is getting a <hi rend="underline">bit</hi> more 
<lb/>pay, which is doled out in a mysterious way so
<lb/><gap/> they don't know too much has get per annum
<lb/>It was a dark, wet Sat: Apr: so there was little
<lb/>to do one time for a <unclear>malinger</unclear> &amp;I found London
<lb/>a dreary spot! Have you seen a little book
<lb/>by O'Rorke, a chaplain who was a prisoner at
<lb/>Torgau, Bay &amp; Magdeburg it is called "In the Hands
<lb/>of the Enemy" pub. Longman, I seen &amp; gives a very interesting
<lb/>account of the prisoners doings &amp; mentions several
<lb/>we know, Capt-<gap/>, H. Randall etc.</p>
<p>I was sorry indeed to hear of <gap/> death
<lb/>it is sad for poor Lord, &amp; must have been very</p>

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Letter from Olive Duffin to her brother Charles Edmund Duffin, 6 December 1915

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

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