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Letter from Emma Duffin to Celia Duffin, 15 January 1916
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Letter from Emma Duffin to Celia Duffin, 15 January 1916
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<p>sometimes for the want of a little leisure and a nice book. <lb/>Some one sent out a dear little collection of poetry, all old <lb/> favourites with some books for the Tommies & I have kept it <lb/>as they would never read them, and it was a perfect joy <lb/>to see some of them again. I wish you would get abroad <lb/>somewhere, it would be so much more interesting but if you <lb/>came out here you would be here for all the hot weather. <lb/>Have you signed in for another six months. My time <lb/>will not be up till April. Poor Dessie's affair <lb/>sounds to me rather a fiasco. It is a pity! I don't like the <lb/>sound of him at all. I have nothing to tell you for I <lb/>have been having a very quiet life lately. If I could only <lb/>show you the people, it is a perpetual ammusement to watch <lb/>them. You see a woman swinging along with an enormous bundle <lb/>on her head and a child perched on her shoulder, sitting up as straight <lb/>as a reed though it only looks about a year old, or a man in <lb/>a lovely blue robe riding on a white donkey with big milk cans in <lb/>panniers at each side, or a very old man bent double with a <lb/>big water skin on his back, there is a picture at every corner, <lb/>but descriptions are dull I think, & nothing in the way of photographs <lb/>is much good for you live the colour.</p> <p>Best love my dear</p> <p>Write again when you can</p> <salute>Ever yours</salute> <signed><hi rend="underline">Emma.</hi></signed>
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