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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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sad for him, poor man, to know it was coming.
I see Mr. <unclear>Young's</unclear> death in the Times to.day.
<lb/>How many sad changes here are in Belfast.
<lb/>I'm so glad you feel a bit better, &amp; that
<lb/>business is not so very bad. I hope you like 
<lb/>the new clerk. I've never heard from <gap/> except
<lb/>through <unclear>home,</unclear> I wonder what they are doing now.
<lb/>I rather thought all the artillery business we hear
<lb/>of going on lately was the prelude to some big
<lb/>attack, especially as we heard a good many 
<lb/>people whose leave was stopped. A. J. among
<lb/>them. I saw <unclear>Una</unclear> Ross, staying with the
<lb/>sister in law, who is a decent little woman, not
<lb/>quite a lady, but looks a good sort &amp; sensible,
<lb/>&amp; has a very delicate looking boy of about Charles'
<lb/>age &amp; strangely like Peter. I don't know what the
<lb/>history is. <unclear>Una</unclear> was as mad as ever &amp; very dis&#x2014;
<lb/>appointed at his not getting over. She was
<lb/>going on to Lady <unclear>Ammeslay</unclear>.
<gap/> <unclear>Hollins</unclear> is here now, she is a pretty: 
<lb/>creature, very proper &amp; well brought up &amp; I have
<lb/>to take her everywhere, as she is not allowed out
<lb/>on her own! She is a nice girl but a bit of a <unclear>prig.</unclear>
<lb/>I think she <unclear>seems</unclear> family are all a bit <unclear>goody</unclear>
<lb/>priggish, nice but well satisfied with themselves.
<lb/>Another <unclear>seems</unclear>, married to a <gap/> was here for

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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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