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Letter from Emma Duffin to Celia Duffin, 15 January 1916

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<address>15<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> Gen. Hosp. Alexandria</address>
<date>Jan. 15/16.</date>
<salute>My dear old Celia</salute>
<p>It is rather an age since I wrote to you I'm afraid
<lb/>I pity you on night duty. I'm afraid I'm due to go on again
<lb/>soon &amp; I do so hate it. In the meantime I am still in my
<lb/>tent and they are opening up more tents again<unclear>has them sent</unclear>
<lb/>a sister she seems a dull but decent old girl, &amp; funnily enough
<lb/>had a V.C.D. in Manchester called Duffin who came from Dublin.
<lb/>I am off in the morning today which is rather unusual for
<lb/>me rather nice for a change but I should not like it often.
<lb/>I have been out taking photographs I hope they'll be a
<lb/>success. I took an awfully fond lot as the <unclear>duchy</unclear> when
<lb/> I was seeing Celine Russell off but unfortunately the
<lb/> roll stuck in my camera &amp; the light got in when I was trying
<lb/> to get them out. I was in the sick room for five
<lb/> days with a "Gyppy Tummy" not very bad &amp; I rather enjoyed
<lb/>snuggling down in bed when the  others were going on duty since
<lb/>that I had an awful swelled face which made me feel
<lb/>much <unclear>in there</unclear> really, though I was on duty, but now I am
<lb/>quite all right again. We had a week of awful weather,
<lb/>storms &amp; tropical rain which flooded everything, came into
<lb/>the corner of my room &amp; ran down the wall. I like
<lb/>the letter which you sent me very much, didn't you get starved.</p>

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Letter from Emma Duffin to Celia Duffin, 15 January 1916

Duffin papers

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