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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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a day or two &amp; was holding forth in praise of
<lb/><gap/>, who of course is a friend of her brothers!
<lb/>No one here has a good word to say for the <gap/>
<lb/>family, I think they are a rotten lot if all 
<lb/>accounts be true.
Everyone here is very decent to me I must say, &amp; I've
<lb/>had a lot of kindness, &amp; no disagreeables. I've no
<lb/>doubt that Irish &amp; <gap/> people as a whole are nicer 
<lb/>than English, &amp; English people kind so too! They're 
<lb/>always boasting of having any Irish blood in them
<lb/>&amp; it's quite a passport to popularity!
We've had awful storms &amp; very wet. I hear it is 
<lb/>everywhere the same. My room is at the top of a very
<lb/>high house &amp; I am bothered with the noises the wind
<lb/>makes, every thing seems to rattle all night.
<lb/>Miss <unclear>Roberts</unclear> is as gay as possible &amp; has never been 
<lb/><gap/> to he so well, she is indeed a wonder.
We are very dark at night now, a few lamps
<lb/>just in the centre of the town &amp; the other roads
<lb/>quite dark, she goes out to tea around with a
<lb/>stick &amp; electric lamp, I've developed a ful&#x2014; a second
<lb/>sight, or rather feel, I am surprised at my own
<lb/>cleverness in finding my way, for this town is like a 
<lb/>maze. We <unclear>collected</unclear> about £60 for the <unclear>hut</unclear>: they
<lb/>cost &#x2014; $450 now so it takes a lot of money, but it is
<lb/>all a help. I feel as if I had been a year

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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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